Southerner Quotes - Page 4

• Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.

  Ethel Waters

  Thinking, Yellow, Differences

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• While I felt very much a Southerner as a child, being Jewish gave me an outsider's perspective. People look at region in a variety of ways, and I always paid attention to food. Food rises above other things for me. From a young age, I saw food as a barometer of cultural identity, and I was fascinated by how people defined themselves through their food traditions.

  Marcie Cohen Ferris

  Children, People, Perspective

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Viola Davis keeps saying this movie should be called The Big Responsibility instead of The Help, because there were so many groups of people that you wanna do right by. You want to do right by Southerners and the African-American community and the readers of the book and the people that grew up with domestics and the people who worked as domestics. There's a million different groups that you're trying to please and satisfy that you're worried about not loving what comes across onscreen.

  Emma Stone

  Book, Responsibility, People

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Throughout our history, there has been a long list of those we've been conditioned to hate. The British, French, Spanish, Germans, Japanese, Russians, Communists, Northern Koreans, Vietnamese, Iranians, Taliban, and both northerners and southerners in America are some of the people we've been encouraged at various times to call enemies and to hate. The list is long, and as time passes, those we were assigned to hate we later were told should be removed from our hate list. The enemy is obviously hatred itself. Have empathy for your assigned enemy.

  Wayne Dyer

  Hate, Long, People

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• It was the first time, in the West Wing, I had ever read anyone write a Southerner properly. Because Southern women, in my opinion, are complicated and are equally feminine and driven. That's kind of an unusual combination and people usually tend to get it wrong.

  Emily Procter

  Writing, People, Southern

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.

  E. O. Wilson

  Writing, Southern, Novel

  "EO Wilson: Our Greatest Biologist Writes A Novel, ‘Anthill’". Interview with Steve Ross, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2010.

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• I guess I'm just courtly until people get in my way. You'll find most Southerners are like that.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  People, Way, My Way

  Source: www.fargonebooks.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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• 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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• Like many young men in the South, he had trouble ruling out the possible. They are not like an immigrant's son in Passaic who desires to become a dentist and that is that. Southerners have trouble ruling out the possible. What happens to a... man to whom all things seem possible and every course of action open? Nothing of course.

  Walker Percy

  Son, Men, Desire

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• Besides, Southerners are hospitable. They'll probably offer me lemonade." Excuse me? You're going to sit on a porch and drink lemonade while I plow a swamp with a goat's horn?" Yes, ma'am. And I aim to wear my seamless shirt while you do it.

  Nancy Werlin

  Swamps, Goats, Drink

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Pres. Lyndon Johnson was a middle-aged man of smalltown America, both a Westerner and a Southerner, and except where politics had demonstrably forced his growth-as on the question of civil rights-he functioned like most men, as a product of his background.

  Tom Wicker

  Character, Men, Rights

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.

  Reynolds Price

  Thinking, Southern, Mystique

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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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• Southerners ask intimate questions in the way monkeys groom each other for lice, not to pry but to make you feel cared for.

  Reynolds Price

  Lice, Monkeys, Way

  Reynolds Price (2000). “Tongues of Angels: A Novel”, Scribner

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• Though Anne was born in Alabama and schooled in Mississippi, she had traveled North, and, like many Southerners, gained a theoretical understanding of the concept of cold. But the mind is an overprotective parent. What it doesn't care for, it hides. Like many inhabiting the subtropics, Anne had repressed the reality of subzero mercury.

  Kathy Reichs

  Reality, Parent, Understanding

  Kathy Reichs (2014). “Monday Mourning: A Novel”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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