Family Quote by Rhiannon Giddens

One of the things that is so striking to me about the South, especially living here now as an adult, is that I see…

— Jesmyn Ward

We grew up in the South, but in a very liberal household - both our parents are from the Northeast.

— Martie Maguire

I was raised in the south with my grandparents and in New York with my mom and Diddy. And that created a balance for…

— Quincy Brown

I feel like a lot of families are mixed in one way or another.

— Jenna Ortega

When you live in a lot of places, you can't help but have them become part of you. Technically, I am a Southerner, but…

— Neko Case

It's weird being mixed race, people never talk about the white side, they always talk about the black side.

— Miquita Oliver

It's the South that maintains the idea that they're different, which is interesting because nobody else really cares

— Josh Lucas

I'm a southern girl, and I grew up with this slightly schizophrenic upbringing where I bounced back and forth between Atlanta, Georgia, and a…

— Lauren Myracle

Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted…

— Carson McCullers

The way people grow up, it shapes the way they think and the way they do certain things. I grew up with a mixed…

— Mike Evans

I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people mixed together.

— JR

I have a cousin, a second cousin, who lives in L.A., and she was with me while I was getting ready. She was talking…

— Cynthia Nixon