Better Quote by Virginia Postrel

I went to Yale in 1980 and always through I'd like to come back to South Carolina but imagined I needed to live away…

— Scott Bessent

The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.

— Pat Conroy

The rich and complex history of South Carolina is the history of the African diaspora, and in many ways, I felt acutely the sense…

— Kwame Dawes

In South Carolina, there's a lot of arts programs. So I was blessed enough to go to the Governor School For Arts & Humanities.

— Danielle Brooks

Princeton ignited my intellectual curiosity and introduced me to a new social world. It... challenged me on the most fundamental levels imaginable. It was…

— Bill Bradley

The South was influential in my life. It helped form who I am. I went to New York out of drama school, and I…

— Connie Britton

I was at UC Berkeley as an undergrad when my father lost a lot of money in real estate investments in Northern California. He…

— Maz Jobrani

As soon as I moved to Princeton in 1978, I became fascinated by local history, much of it Revolutionary War-era; and I became fascinated…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I both loved and hated South Pasadena. On the one hand, it was so diverse - all my closest friends were immigrants or had…

— Porochista Khakpour

The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the…

— James Weldon Johnson

I grew up in Orangeburg, South Carolina, which has the proud distinction of being the home to two of the eight Historically Black Colleges…

— Jaime Harrison

I decided early on that I wanted to participate in the greater American experience, rather than the parochial one in Mississippi. But I have…

— Richard Ford