Quotes About Culture

Stone-ground grits are wonderful, but because they take so long to cook, I usually go with quick cooking grits - which I also love. But I never make the instant kind - some things a Southerner just won't do!

Southerners smile more than other Americans.

I grew up in the age of discount air fare, and for me, the act of joining a culture was a great way about learning about that different culture. So I grew up in the South, and went to college in the North, and found out that I learned about myself as a Southerner by leaving the South and going to the Northeast.

I'm glad I'm Southern. I'm the Southerner who's very Southern in that she left to move to New York.

Southerners have this love of embellishment. Even when you read a police report, there's some backstory.

No self-respecting Southerner will eat something baked, broiled, grilled, stewed, poached, sauteed, or flambeed when it can be deep fried.

I do play a lot of Southerners because I grew up in the South, but they're still diverse.

Even as a Southerner, there's only so much corn-pone shucking and jiving about mama-and-gravy talk I can take.

Southerners pride themselves on being polite. This is why we always use euphemisms to express ourselves.

In more recent years, I've become more and more fascinated with the indigenous folklore of this land, Native American folklore, and also Hispanic folklore now that I live in the Southwest.

The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival.

I'm from the Southwest, and in the Southwest of France, you're not supposed to love Paris.

My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.

We tried to set up a company that patterned ourselves after Southwest in all the fun, the spirit, the great people, the smile, the efficiency side of it, but we've added some extras that people aren't used to finding on Southwest.

Coming from the U.K., you realize how quiet England is, and as soon as you get to America, it's really big and brash and loud out here, and South by Southwest was the epitome of that.

I'm from an Irish family and, even though I grew up in 80s London, I spent a lot of my childhood in southwest Ireland.

Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.

The 'Protect America First Act' is critical to secure our Southern border, conserve American culture, and defend U.S. sovereignty.

I'm very proud of Soviet aesthetics.

Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.

I wanted to show something that Americans don't usually think about when they think about Russia, which is the extreme stratification of Soviet society.

I've been to China and Russia, and I don't know anything about Chinese or Soviet relations.

Although I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet.

In the '80s, we were living in the U.S.S.R., where anti-Semitism was a deeply ingrained part of the culture. Being a Jewish person in the Soviet Union was not easy. Not that I remember any of that - I was barely old enough to chew back then - but for my parents, both Uzbekistan-born Jews, life was a struggle.