“ As a child, I ate up the image Carl strived to portray: An inspirational rags-to-riches tale of a go-getter emerging the hell of his sulfur-scented, Podunk Texas upbringing. With a community college d… Magda Young
“ [The South's] obsession was to maintain a government, an economy, an arrangement of the sexes, a relationship of the races, and a social system that had never existed...except in the fertile imaginati… John Hope Franklin
“ Okay, let’s pretend to be friends. Just two friends having dinner. That doesn’t work in the South. A male friend cannot have dinner with a female friend if the male friend has a wife. It just doesn’t… John Grisham
“ The food in the South is as important as food anywhere because it defines a person's culture. Fannie Flagg
“ I am consoled only to see that I was not mistaken: Chicago is just as I remembered it. I was here twenty five years ago. My father brought me and Scott up to see the Century of Progress and once later… Walker Percy
“ But there was a difference in their hardness and hers and just what the difference was, she could not, for the moment, tell. Perhaps it was that there was nothing she would not do, and there were so m… Margaret Mitchell
“ While the post-Civil War southerners were pushing as fast as they could into the New South, were grasping Yankee dollars with enthusiasm, they purified their motives in the well of Lost Causism. Polit… Frank E. Vandiver
“ Charlestonians had a particularly vicious and cunning game, developed after the War. They treated outsiders with so much graciousness and consideration that their politeness became a weapon. 'Visitors… Alexandra Ripley
“ Then the game became guessing where the storm would hit, or, in local parlance, go in, as if it were some stray relative in search of lodging. Mary Karr
“ There are turning points in everyone's life when we have to fight, even if we have to do it by ourselves and in public. Junius Williams
“ The enemy was not the Klan but the inside-outside lock that racism and classism had on the minds of the people: It operated from the inside through self-hate and self-doubt, and from the outside throu… Junius Williams
“ … a Southerner is BORN into the lifestyle,there just ain’t no choice about it.Yer either a Southerner or ya ain’t. Chad B. Hanson
“ Some of you from outside the South may be wondering why we’re emphasizing this irrefutable historical fact that everyone should know so strongly already. Well, it’s because there has been an unfortuna… Trae Crowder
“ It’s just a party. You eat some food and drink a beer and pretend you don’t want to be crawdad fishing,” Angie said. “No, it’s an echo chamber of sycophants and I can’t listen to some bimbo recite her… Mary Jane Hathaway
“ I came to the state twenty years ago from the South, the gothic South. I’ve heard it called that, haven’t you, Mister Morgan? ‘Thought I was gettin’ away from all that. You know, the Tennessee William… Jackson Burnett
“ Lucy saw the delighted expressions of the guests and knew they looked like something out an Austen movie. Well, at least Jem did. She giggled a little and cleared her throat. “Something funny?” he mur… Mary Jane Hathaway
“ Linnie. And this Winnie.” They wore identical smiles, their bright black eyes sparked with curiosity. “Are you the doctor?” “No, I’m just volunteering.” “I knowed that, too.” Winnie gave her an exagge… Mary Jane Hathaway
