Quotes About Culture

I'm too Southern.

My drag is that real Southern dragged-out style of drag.

Being from the South, I was really into Southern rap, but I listened to a lot of stuff from all over.

I remember when I was growing up and watching southern people depicted on television, I thought, 'Well, based on what I'm seeing, I guess I'm supposed to be stupid and racist.' It's still, sadly, the easy route for a writer to go.

We're just Southern people.

We just dig Southern rock 'n' roll. It hasn't been represented well at all. So, we want to see the people in the South get their music out.

I'm a hip-hop fan, and I'm a Southern Cali girl.

No matter what their background, the southern French are fascinated by food.

My full name is Olatunde Olateju Olaolorun Fagbenle. I was named after my grandfather. It's Yoruba, which is, like, southern Nigeria.

I'm from a part of Florida that is very close to Georgia in the panhandle area. I have a very colorful Southern family.

I like being Southern; I like going to Cracker Barrel - I mean, that's just how I am.

Basically as someone who grew up in Delhi, crooning in southern languages which I don't understand is very difficult.

There is nothing like Southern hospitality. It's such a beautiful and genuine thing.

For me, I love the flavors of Southern food, and people usually think of Southern food as heavy and fattening, but it doesn't have to be.

I think it is very ironic that most people think that the banjo is a southern white instrument. It came from Africa and even for the first years that white people played banjo they would put on blackface.

I concentrate on the southern African subcontinent.

So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we're kind of an international phenomenon.

I don't want to be the Hollywood girl... I'm Southern and old-fashioned.

Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern.

I like to think I am well-mannered. If I have the option at a breakfast place, I'll go with the grits. That's how Southern I am.

Oh, my, yes. I was raised in this Southern culture where if a guy was sarcastic, that just meant he didn't know how to show his love - but secretly he cared! I completely bought that. The men I chased and the things I put up with - it was criminal.

I'm very Southern in the way I walk in the world. I love to laugh. I love to eat. I love to hug people. But if somebody makes me mad, my neck may roll. I can be aggressive with a Southern twang.

What I do onstage, there's maybe .0001 percent of the population that acts like that. I talk like that because it makes me laugh, and because I know a couple of people that talk like that. They're really that Southern. And they do funny things. I love 'em; they're awesome. They're good people.

For breakfast I have grits, because I'm a Southern girl!