Quotes About Community

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

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.

I haven't taught since 2004, but I taught high school English for seven years, primarily at a place called Haddonfield Memorial, which is in a very well-to-do-community in Southern New Jersey.

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.

I'm Southern, but I need to be out making my own money, and impacting the world outside of my house.

I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress.

I'm such a Southern girl.

I grew up in a Southern Baptist-style church with a choir, a band, and music, but I've been asking myself my whole life, 'Why is my own church, my own community, rejecting me because of my sexuality?'

There's something about Southern characters.

Southern black gay and bi men are suffering from a self-esteem issue.

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.

Have I always agreed with my Southern, military, Mormon family? Absolutely not. Have we always figured out how to get along? Yes! At the point at which politics supersedes the family and community, we've got a real problem.

I come from a family that raised me with good southern values.

Growing up black in America, and with Southern roots in my family, I was informed in my own life.

You may have Leftist ideologies, southern Punjab always had a leftist ideology.

Southern hospitality, that's where I come from.

Just being from Louisiana, being from the southern part of Louisiana, Metairie, close to New Orleans and growing up in St. Rose. There are a lot of things to overcome.

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.

I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches.

I grew up Southern Baptist. In the Bible Belt.

Well, for me, I grew up very Southern Baptist, and I definitely lived in my bubble. You know, I lived in my bubble that was in my church.