Growing up Quote by Patty Jenkins

I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping…

— Natasha Trethewey

When it comes to the southern states, I used to actually live in Louisiana for a year.

— Drew McIntyre

I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it

— Richard Wright

Everyone thinks because you're from the south you know everyone down there, but it's not like that; I never knew nothing about no Mississippi.

— Buddy Guy

The movies I've made about the South, they were my experience and it's something that I know.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I didn't technically grow up in the South, but both my parents were from there.

— Kevin Young

I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a vacation cabin or something there…

— William Gibson

I love the South. Although I grew up primarily in Memphis, my family moved around a ton when I was a kid. I guess…

— Chris Hardwick

I was born in New Hampshire, moved to Tennessee when I was 9, and lived there through high school, then went to school at…

— Matt Czuchry

It may sound funny, but I love the South. I don't choose to live anywhere else. There's land here, where a man can raise…

— Medgar Evers

I had been to the South many times and I thought I knew what the South was, but not until you live with people…

— Genevieve Gorder

I grew up mostly in the South, and there's definitely something about the South that's different from the North. When people ask me where…

— Steven Soderbergh