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• I'm from the South. I'm a Southern Baptist. I have a conservative point of view. I'm a Republican.

  Shannen Doherty

  Views, Baptists, Conservative

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• 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.

  Johnnie Cochran

  White, Talking, Black

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• Our traditions have been waking up on Christmas morning and feasting on a southern breakfast. I'm from the South. We eat grits and biscuits and gravy and eggs with Ritz crackers and country ham, bacon, you name it. - Leigh

  Leigh-Allyn Baker

  Christmas, Country, Morning

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• I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.

  Maya Angelou

  Song, Mean, Black

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• It can be said, then, that Everlost is heaven...for the places that deserve a share of forever. Such places are few and far between...The greatest of these stood near Manhattan's southern-most tip: the two gray brothers to the green statue in the bay. The towers had found their heaven...held fast, and held forever by the memories of a mourning world, and by the dignity of the souls who got where they were going on that dark September day.

  Neal Shusterman

  Brother, Memories, Dark

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• My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.

  Stanley Donen

  Long, Childhood, Stories

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• Southern Europe has not done enough to enhance its competitiveness, while northern Europe has not done enough to boost demand. Debt burdens remain crushing, and Europe's economy remains unable to grow.

  Barry Eichengreen

  Crush, Europe, Done

  "Unity of the European Union is about to be tested" by Barry Eichengreen, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2012.

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• While writing Cold Mountain, I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early map of North Carolina. Overlaying it, though, was an imagined map of the landscape Jack travels in the southern Appalachian folktales. He's much the same Jack who climbs the beanstalk, vulnerable and clever and opportunistic.

  Charles Frazier

  Clever, Writing, Two

  "Week three: Charles Frazier on writing Cold Mountain" by Charles Frazier, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.

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• I really would rather have gone to New York, since all my training had been in theater, but I didn't have the guts to go there alone. I knew only one person in New York, and that was a man. What I needed was a woman. That's the way Southern girls thought.

  Louise Fletcher

  Girl, New York, Men

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• While a strong presence on our southern border is imperative, the border cannot be secured unless we enforce our internal laws and stop ignoring the open complicity of U.S. companies and foreign nations to promote illegal activities.

  Elton Gallegly

  Strong, Illegal Activities, Law

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• F.D.R. had to deal with Southern segregationists - and outright racists - who held power in Congress, so he had to yield to that power in order to get his New Deal legislation passed.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Yield, Order, Racist

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• There's something about Southern women that is so unique yet so universal. Strong southern women are allowed to be soft and feminine and have a sense of humor. But what I love about Southern women in particular is their universality.

  Connie Britton

  Strong, Unique, Sense Of Humor

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• It's nice coming to Nashville, and we have four-bedroom house and a dog, and we go swimming a lot. We get down here and spread out a lot, and I miss my sweet tea and my cornbread and my good southern cooking - but I'm down here eating pretty for two weeks and I'm ready to go back to New York City.

  Justin Townes Earle

  Sweet, Dog, New York

  "Harlem River Blues Man". Interview with Michael Slenske, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 23, 2011.

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• New York has always had a love for Southern artists. There's no place else that makes me feel like the city does. I just love the immediate nature of the city, you can get whatever you want whenever you want it and do whatever you want whenever you want to.

  Justin Townes Earle

  New York, Artist, Cities

  "Harlem River Blues Man". Interview With Michael Slenske, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 23, 2011.

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• Black Velvet in that little boys smile, Black Velvet with that slow southern style. A new religion that'll bring you to your knees.

  Alannah Myles

  Boys, Black, Style

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• The young bloods of the South: sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard-players and sportsmen, men who never did any work and never will... They are splendid riders, first-rate shots and utterly reckless. These men must all be killed or employed by us before we can hope for peace.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Son, Player

  "Memoirs of General William T. Sherman".

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• Maybe scientists are fundamentalist when it comes to defining in some abstract way what is meant by 'truth'. But so is everybody else. I am no more fundamentalist when I say evolution is true than when I say it is true that New Zealand is in the southern hemisphere. We believe in evolution because the evidence supports it, and we would abandon it overnight if new evidence arose to disprove it.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Support, Hemisphere

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• Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record.

  John Shelton Reed

  Historical, Flags, Records

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• I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.

  Vince Gill

  Gentleman, Engagement, Southern Gentleman

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• Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Strong, Race, White

  James Weldon Johnson (2012). “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state.

  William H. Seward

  Law, Maintenance, Slavery

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• One cannot help asking sadly, why is love of gold more potent than love of souls? The number of men mining and prospecting for gold in Shantung is more than double the number of men representing Southern Baptists! What a lesson for Southern Baptists to ponder!

  Lottie Moon

  Men, Numbers, Soul

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• The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.

  Belle Boyd

  Teamwork, Election, States

  Belle Boyd (1865). “Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison”, p.53

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• However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children.

  John Sergeant Wise

  Children, Men, May

  John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.85, Anza Publishing

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• To be born a Southern woman is to be made aware of your distinctiveness. And with it, the rules. The expectations. These vary some, but all follow the same basic template, which is, fundamentally, no matter what the circumstance, Southern women make the effort. Which is why even the girls in the trailer parks paint their nails. And why overstressed working moms still bake three dozen homemade cookies for the school fund-raiser. And why you will never see Reese Witherspoon wearing sweatpants. Or Oprah take a nap.

  Allison Glock

  Girl, Mom, School

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