Accent Quote by Stuart Scott

When you say, 'Southern,' or you speak about a southern accent, there's always that drawl, and usually from white people. That's what people associate…

— Angie Thomas

I'm from the South, where if you walk down the street and there's somebody behind you talking with a Southern accent, you can't tell…

— Johnnie Cochran

The idea of 'talking white,' a lot of people grew up around that, just the idea that if you speak with proper diction and…

— Chance the Rapper

Even in my adult years, when I heard a white person speaking in a Southern accent I was initially suspicious.

— John Edgar Wideman

There's a way that white people and black people spoke in the '70s that is nothing like how they speak now. They spoke from…

— Michael Jai White

After Civil Rights, it was very awkward for whites and blacks. We didn't know how to talk to each other.

— Nick Nolte

Growing up in a school that was majority white, my understanding of the world was that I was different but that differences shouldn't be…

— Alicia Garza

The racial conversation in the States is so multifaceted and multilayered. Obviously it's not always a positive conversation, but it's just so much more…

— St. Lucia

It was weird being a kid in the Midlands where outside everybody is white and speaks in a certain way but when you go…

— Lenny Henry

The world has wanted me to speak differently than I speak. You know, I speak like my mom; I speak like, you know, like…

— Jordan Peele

I was brought up in black neighborhoods in South Baltimore. And we really felt like we were very black. We acted black and we…

— Jerry Leiber

In the South, everyone speaks, if you know each other or not. I'm raising my daughter more Southern, like how her father and I…

— Shanola Hampton