Southern Quotes - Page 25

• I'm accountable - this sounds emo - to black American writing, Southern writing, Southern black American writing, American writing and my people. That's kind of what keeps me accountable.

  Kiese Laymon

  Emo, Writing, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Los Angelesand all of southern california is destined to become the greatest metropolitan area the world has ever known.

  Otis Chandler

  California, World, Los Angeles

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• Like slaves on the sugar plantations of the Antilles, ...the sugar slaves of southern Louisiana had negative birthrates for as long as slavery lasted.

  Ned Sublette

  Long, Negative, Louisiana

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• I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.

  Donald Trump

  Wall, Borders, Mexico

  "Trump's 'great wall': How much will it cost? Who's paying?". www.cbc.ca. January 25, 2017.

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• If you're a kid in Southern California, somebody - whether it's you or your parents - somebody throws your hat into the ring and I think everyone had a commercial or two.

  Danny Bonaduce

  Kids, Thinking, Two

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• The Southern Baptist Church is a specific culture in itself. So, I had to study, talk to people, watch tape and go to performances to see how Gospel artists move compared to secular artists.

  Boris Kodjoe

  Moving, Artist, People

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• I am one who is very meridione - Southern Italian. I am proud of this. I design everything with my team, which is fantastic and small. I design by look. For example, people always comment to me, "When you do men's shirts, you always keep them closed on the catwalk." That's my thing.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Team, Italian, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am very attracted to the United States. Why? Well, as a little kid from Southern Italy, not from a wealthy family, it was always my dream to go to the Big Apple. I'm not one to listen to classical music. I am very much for what is American, but I also prefer the America of the ghetto. I love the Bronx. I love hip-hop and R&B. I love electro-Latino, Latin music, that whole realm.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Dream, Latin, Kids

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The children of the white families in town were not permitted to associate with me, because my father was committing the then unpardonable crime, in Southern eyes, of educating negroes.

  Lee De Forest

  Children, Father, Eye

  "The Man Who Made Radio Talk". Popular Science Monthly, May 1929.

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• Now I love to feel that warm southern rain, Just to hear it fall is the sweetest sounding thing. And to see it fall on your simple country dress It's like heaven to me I must confess.

  Ben Harper

  Country, Rain, Fall

  Song: Steal My Kisses From You

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• My most memorable meal is every Thanksgiving. I love the food: The turkey and stuffing; the sweet potatoes and rice, which come from my mother's Southern heritage; the mashed potatoes, which come from my wife's Midwestern roots; the Campbell's green bean casserole; and of course, pumpkin pie.

  Douglas Conant

  Mother, Sweet, Memorable

  "Thanksgiving Stories: A Recipe for Celebration" by Suzannah Galland, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 23, 2016.

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• You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world. Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music. I wonder if people have even noticed what a tremendous cultural signal the Beatles are.

  Alan Arkin

  Real, Years, People

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• One day I was meditating on a cliff overlooking the ocean in Southern California and I was absorbed in a state of high meditation. As I came out of the meditation and became aware of the sense world the world around me I knew that I had a new name. And the name, of course, was Rama.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ocean, Names, California

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• The 1860 election became a referendum on the southern way of life.

  Bruce Catton

  War, History, Way

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• I was always a friend of southern rights, but an enemy of southern wrongs.

  Benjamin Butler

  War, Rights, History

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• We have, for generations, been trying to be more inclusive of the word Southern. And a symbol like the confederate flag indicates white only are allowed into that world. And removing the Confederate flag from public view to the pages of history is long overdue.

  William R. Ferris

  Views, White, Long

  "Confederate Flag Debate Symbolizes Rapid Change In The South". "All Things Considered" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. June 23, 2015.

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• When we say the South lost the Civil War, we mean the white South. The blacks were liberated. And it's trying to redefine this Southern myth and bring it in a more positive direction.

  William R. Ferris

  War, Mean, White

  "Confederate Flag Debate Symbolizes Rapid Change In The South". "All Things Considered" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. June 23, 2015.

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• I know one thing - very few writers in Southern California get to write what they want to write. We are more or less worker ants, working for either film companies or tv companies or Internet companies. We do a lot of assigned work. Feelings hardly ever enter into it. If they do, they tend to be on a sort of soap opera level.

  Larry Gelbart

  Writing, California, Feelings

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I didn't actually figure out how to get guidance, so I just decided to go to school at University of Southern California because they sent me a glossy brochure.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  School, California, Guidance

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm a small town boy from a place not too different from Farmville. I grew up with a corn field in my backyard. My grandfather had emigrated to this country when he was about my son's age. My mom and dad built everything that matters in a small town in southern Indiana. They built a family and a good name and a business, and they raised a family.

  Mike Pence

  Mom, Country, Dad

  Source: www.politico.com

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• We are letting people into America that are going to cause problems and crime like you've never seen. We're also letting drugs pour through our southern border at a record clip. At a record clip. And it shouldn't be allowed to happen.

  Donald Trump

  America, People, Drug

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.

  Robert Morgan

  Writing, Narrative, Dramatic

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• Broadly speaking, the Southern and Western desert and mountain states will vote for the candidate who endorses an aggressive military, a role for religion in public life, laissez-faire economic policies, private ownership of guns and relaxed conditions for using them, less regulation and taxation, and a valorization of the traditional family.

  Steven Pinker

  Military, Gun, Mountain

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• William Ferris has long reigned as the unimpeachable source of the entire southern experience. His work on southern folklore and the composition of the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture have made him both legendary and necessary. His book, The Storied South , is a love song to the South Bill helped illuminate. It's a crowning achievement of his own storied career.

  Pat Conroy

  Song, Book, Careers

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• My immune system has always been overly welcoming of germs. It's far too polite, the biological equivalent of a southern hostess inviting y'all nice microbes to stay awhile and have some artichoke dip.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Nice, Health, Germs

  A. J. Jacobs (2012). “Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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