Quotes About Southern

Without travel I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.

It's the greatest of Southern honors . . . to have one's name incorporated into a family tree. It's an honor not lightly given.

It's the greatest of Southern honors . . . to have one's name incorporated into a family tree. It's an honor not lightly given.

I like health-conscious cooking, but growing up in the South, I do love southern cooking; southern France, southern Italy, southern Spain. I love southern cooking.

Sweetened ice tea is one of the things I love about the South, right up there with homemade biscuits and cheese grits.

I have a wonderful family: My parents are churchgoing, salt-of-the-earth Southern people. They gave me a lot of love and are so unaffected by fame.

As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters.

I love London because of the history. The times I've been there have been some of the best memories in my life. Singing there, seeing great theater - and the people like a Southern accent.

I love making down-home Southern cooking, and just chilling out and having cakes and pies and baking stuff, you know. I'm a pretty simple girl.

I live in Connecticut, but eventually I'd like to move back to New Orleans. I grew up there; the pace is a bit slower. Plus, I love crawfish and po'boys.

He was away in a mystery, locked in the enigma that young Southern Black boys start to unravel, start to try to unravel, from seven years old to death. The humorless puzzle of inequality and hate.

If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat.

The Black woman in the South who raises sons, grandsons and nephews had her heartstrings tied to a hanging noose.

There is a much-loved region in the American fantasy where pale white women float eternally under black magnolia trees, and white men with soft hands brush wisps of wisteria from the creamy shoulders of their lady loves. Harmonious black music drifts like perfume through this precious air, and nothing of a threatening nature intrudes. The South I returned to, however, was flesh-real and swollen-belly poor.

Se crescer é doloroso para a garota negra do sul, estar ciente do seu não pertencimento é a ferrugem na navalha que ameaça a garganta. É um insulto desnecessário.

Los atardeceres revelaban la dureza de la vida de los negros en el Sur, que a primeras horas de la mañana había quedado suavizada por los dones de la naturaleza: el amodorramiento, el olvido y la tenue luz del quinqué.

Southern Baptists don't pick at their food. What we don't drink, we eat.

Ours was a patriarchal world. To be anything different wouldn't have been Southern Baptist.

The Republican decision to exploit the race issue and abandon the option of becoming a party of reform manifested itself in the 1961 speech in Atlanta by Barry Goldwater to a gathering of Southern Republicans. "We're not going to get the Negro vote as a bloc in 1964 and 1968, so we ought to go hunting where the ducks are," he declared.

All Southern women have murder just under the surface, but we cloak it in graciousness.

We had a citywide emergency on our hands, as there is no greater affliction for the southern mind than people up north coming down to fix our way of life.

rudeness is a misdemeanor in Charleston.

Must our imaginations be so feeble as that, Thomas? If the Union dies, as our old president says, it will be from lack of imagination… It will be from Southern hubris, and our love of wealth, and the brutality of our hearts!

South Carolina senator James Chestnut facetiously promised to drink all the blood that was shed, since he thought the war woudn't amount to anything serious. "Southern secessionists believed northerners would never mobilize to halt national division or that they would mount nothing more than brief and ineffective resistance," writes Drew Gilpin Faust in her book on the Civil War, This Republic of Suffering.