Southerner Quotes - Page 4

• I'm a Southerner. We dream of having the family and the kids, and the parents want grandkids, that's all they care about, give me some grandbabies.

  Lance Bass

  Dream, Kids, Giving

  "Lance Bass Wants to Get Married". The Daily Beast Interview, people.com. August 03, 2011.

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• Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence.

  Linda Chavez

  White, Rights, Violence

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• I'll always consider myself a Southerner. A lot of people put California down, but my dreams were realized there.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Dream, California, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• As a Southerner I would have to say that one of the main importances of the War is that Southerners have a sense of defeat which none of the rest of the country has.

  Shelby Foote

  Country, War, History

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• Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush.

  Florence King

  Tree, Genealogy, Devoted

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• I think Confederate Battle Flag is a symbol that causes a great deal of division and reminds us of a really hurtful legacy and past... I think there are some Southerners, black and white, who feel as though the rest of the country looks down on the South as uneducated and backward. And for some people, that was a symbol of defiance against that.

  Russell D. Moore

  Country, Black And White, Past

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't think of myself as a Negro. I'm a Southerner. I just like the Southern way of life.

  Julian Bond

  Thinking, Southern, Way

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• Many whites, even white Southerners told me that even though it may have seemed like the blacks were being freed (by my actions) they felt more free and at ease themselves. They thought that my action didn't just free blacks but them, too.

  Rosa Parks

  White, Being Free, Ease

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• Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just - when all along we knew it wasn't.

  Carson McCullers

  Lonely, Thinking, Long

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• because the theater lost a Barrymore every time a Southerner decided not to go on the stage, just about anything that comes out of a Southern mouth is bound to be a ringing line.

  Florence King

  Southern, Goes On, Mouths

  Florence King (1993). “Southern Ladies & Gentlemen”, p.162, Macmillan

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• The nice thing about Southerners is the way we enjoy our neuroses.

  Florence King

  Nice, Neurosis, Way

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• As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters.

  Karin Slaughter

  Character, Obstacles

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• Being a Southerner, Im interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting.

  Karin Slaughter

  Sex, Interesting, Violence

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• Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its promise for the possibility of human unity: between men and women, between blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, haves and have-have-nots, self and self.

  Aberjhani

  War, Men, Self

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• Im a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Touching, Nerves, Satisfaction

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• When you live in a lot of places, you can't help but have them become part of you. Technically, I am a Southerner, but I did not grow up in the South. So I'm a Southerner by accident, but a Washingtonian.

  Neko Case

  Growing Up, Helping, Grows

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• A man working for wages his whole life is not really free. That is why Jefferson said, you have to own land. Southerners said, - and they weren't being hypocritical - they said slavery is the foundation of freedom because if you own slaves, you are freer yourself.

  Eric Foner

  Men, Land, Foundation

  "Life Is Getting More Difficult for Americans". Interview with Karen Andresen and Cordula Meyer, www.spiegel.de. October 30, 2008.

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• Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.

  Robert Morgan

  Thinking, These Days, Enjoyment

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• A man from Iowa or Illinois will say 'I'm from the Middle West'..a Georgian or a Mississipian may admit to being merely a Southerner...but no Texan, given the opportunity, ever said otherwise than 'I'm from Texas'.

  J. Frank Dobie

  Opportunity, Men, Illinois

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• There is a certain type of white Southerner who respects certain Negro individuals.

  Ethel Waters

  White, Individual, Type

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• Americans are much more American than they are Northerners, Southerners, Westerners, or Easterners ... California Chinese, Boston Irish, Wisconsin German, yes, Alabama Negroes, have more in common than they have apart ... The American identity is an exact and provable thing.

  John Steinbeck

  Boston, California, Chinese

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• I'm a Southerner, born and bred, but that doesn't mean I approve of all that goes on here, and there are a lot of other white people who feel the same.

  Mildred D. Taylor

  Mean, White, People

  "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry". Book by Mildred D. Taylor, 1976.

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• For nearly a century, the South made itself believe that Negroes and white people were really communicating. So convinced of this were the white Southerners that they almost made the nation believe that they, and only they, knew the mind of the Southern Negro.

  Benjamin E. Mays

  Believe, White, People

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• I love the South. Although I grew up primarily in Memphis, my family moved around a ton when I was a kid. I guess I never stayed in one place long enough to pick up the accent, but I definitely identify as a Southerner.

  Chris Hardwick

  Kids, Long, Memphis

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I just want you to know that as a southerner, who actually saw discrimination and have no doubt it existed in a systematic and powerful and negative way to the people - great millions of people in the South, particularly, of America - I know that was wrong. I know we need to do better.

  Jeff Sessions

  Powerful, America, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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