Southern Quotes

I’m ready to do some classics. Maybe I wasn’t in the beginning. I weighed 179 pounds when I got to New York, and I had that thick Southern accent. I still talk Southern, but I can do without it.

My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.

Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music.

Between men and women, between blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, haves and have-have-nots, self and self.

It’s always funny to me when people meet me. They really think I’m from the East coast off top. When they get to talkin’ to me, they go “Oh no, she’s sooooo Southern”

The work the Mexicans are doing in terms of migration control on Mexico’s southern border is crucial to our own border security.

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.’” She raised me up to be a Southern writer, but it wasn’t easy.

Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.

The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.

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.