Quotes About Culture

A Southern accent is not a club in my bag.

The fact that I have a Southern accent and write about a lot of rural things leads people to put me in the country category.

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 whether it's a black or a white person.

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 with the South. But we're all different. The black southern accent is different.

I grew up Southern Baptist. In the Bible Belt.

If you were raised in Oklahoma, you've got to be a Southern Baptist or something.

I'm Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist.

Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.

The Southern California arena rock, hair metal, laidback hippie garden culture - for many growing up in the '70s and '80s, none of it made us who we were like Lou Reed did.

I grew up with fantastic Southern food. In Southern California.

Well, I think it's real important that people understand, first and foremost, those of us that have lived in Arizona or in southern California, we have a very diverse population. The Hispanic population has been part of all of our lives since we've been born here or since we've grown up here.

Reggae is definitely a natural influence. Even living in Southern California, near the water, you get that reggae feel.

I was a Southern California boy raised on rap music and cussed like a sailor.

I have always identified with Joan Didion's depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ever since reading 'Play It As It Lays,' 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' and 'The White Album.'

I never saw a gun until I was 24. I didn't grow up in Mayberry; I grew up in Southern California.

I know everywhere is cool and all, but, at least for me, I was lucky enough to be in southern California. I feel lucky to be from there... I feel like it taught me how to be polite.

Being a Southerner, I'm interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting.

Every Southerner, I think, knows people like Bill Clinton, maybe not quite as smart and maybe not quite as liberal, but kind of a glad-handing, country-club yuppie Southerner. The problem is we don't have labels for middle-class Southerners.

I came from a big family... a big family of Southerners.

I'm sort of a Southerner because those are my roots, but my parents are from Iowa.

I'm a very big Faulkner fan 'cause I'm a Southerner.

There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.

Southerners are also like ethnic groups in that they have a sense of group identity.

In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.