South Quotes

“Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.”

“I'm proud of my Southern heritage. It's a big part of who I am.”

“I can only say that I am more and more impressed with the importance of the Negro's contribution to the South.”

“I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.”

“I am not an American who was born in the South. I am a Southerner who was born in America.”

“There's an odd bit of reverence for the past in the South, and a sense of timelessness.”

“To be a Southerner is to be torn between loving and hating it.”

“The story of the South is the story of race.”

“The South will never be subjugated.”

“I’m a Southerner. It’s part of my DNA. It’s a very rich and fertile ground for a writer.”

“The South has a provincialism that is both its strength and its weakness.”

“You don't have to be a Southerner to be a good writer, but it helps.”

“It may sound funny, but I love the South. I don't choose to live anywhere else. There's land here, where a man can raise cattle, and I'm going to do that someday.”

“That's the paradox of the south: grace and violence, hospitality and cruelty, living side-by-side, unseen, until they erupt.”

“Cotton is king.”

“The south is a strange place, one that can't be fit inside a movie, a song or a book.”

“To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.”

“When you're a southern woman, you're taught to be a good old girl.”

“My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, 'All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: On the night the hogs ate Willie, Mama died when she heard what Daddy did to Sister.'”

“No people in the history of the world have been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned as the people of the South.”