#southerner

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

#between #blacks #browns #decided #difference

I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#badly #critical #environment #especially #had

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

— E. O. Wilson

#because #i #novel #southern #southerner

Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#country #generally #his #johnson #men

Southerners can never resist a losing cause. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#losing #never #resist #southerners

King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#born #georgia #having #king #reared

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

— Reynolds Price

#amount #being #fair #i #i think

I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North similar to a Southerner. They're two different worlds. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#different worlds #discovered #i #make #north

I'm a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve. I guess if I'm forced to find a good side, I'm glad that people are talking about an issue that hasn't really been discussed all that much. I'm glad that people are talking about it from the black perspective and the white perspective. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#been #black #discussed #find #forced

[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#rhett-butler-to-scarlett #southerners #yankees #humor