Quotes About Culture

My grandmother would sing in the choir, while my dad - while he was in college - sang and recorded with a quartet. So yeah, it was definitely my dad's Southern side that impacted on me musically.

Even with the fact that I grew up in North Carolina, 'Jim Rash' just screams 'Southern boy.'

Southern people remind me a lot of Australia.

At first I read mostly books by Southern authors - black and white - because almost all the people I knew were born and raised in the South, starting with my mother. I remember I got a lot of Erskine Caldwell.

In the Bronx, you have the southern Italians; in Queens, the Greeks, Koreans and Chinese; in Brooklyn, the Jewish community; and in Harlem, the Hispanics - all with their own markets.

Southern Gothic is alive and well. It's not just a genre, it is a way of life.

I am a meat-loving Southern girl. Add in being a writer, and that means I drink more than I should, too.

I was married for 10 minutes into a Southern family.

My grandmother, my mother and my aunts and their friends were all of southern Chinese ancestry, and they were all strong figures. Though if you asked them who was the head of their families, they would have said their husbands; and yet it was the women who ran everything.

Boiled peanuts are a Southern thing.

I'm such a Southern girl.

In terms of my own experience, my dad is first-generation, so his parents were from China, and my mom was born and raised in southern Illinois, and she was involved in the arts. My dad's a doctor.

I'm from Florida, which I consider more southern. You cannot put Florida in the same category as California or New York.

It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.

I was raised a proper Southern boy.

There's something about Southern characters.

I think what the public knows as 'Southern rock' will never be repeated.

Good southern boys always have this connection with their mom.

In South Carolina, the Confederate flag flies high on countless flagpoles. Those who defend this practice by saying it is part of Southern culture are lying to themselves.

My life changed forever the first time I went to the southern hemisphere.

Life experiences with oppression and homophobia often become internalized and can have detrimental effects on the development of positive sexual identity for Southern black gay men.

Food is a way to explore culture and ground the story in a specific time and place. I still remember the meals and snacks from my first novel, 'Shug': pork chops and applesauce and Coca-Cola and peanuts, which are very Southern. When a character has roots elsewhere, food is a way to connect with home and another culture.

Cruising on the old rice boats in Kerala, southern India, with my wife was amazing.

I knew that I wanted to create a restaurant like Hard Rock Cafe or Planet Hollywood that celebrated not just music or Hollywood, but who we were as people of color, as Caribbean, African, Cajun and Southern people.