#w

You can have music and it will stand alone by itself, but you can't have a movie without it. ↗

— Jerry Reed

#itself #movie #music #stand #will

In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt. ↗

— John Reed

#authorities #comes #contempt #every #excites

Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#confederate #especially #flag #given #going

As long as there are Japanese tourists, there will be a market for the Old South. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#long #market #old #south #tourists

People in Nevada know me from the street to the ring to the Senate chambers. I've never had to prove my manhood to anyone. ↗

— Harry Reid

#chambers #had #i #know #manhood

Dixie has just fallen to pieces. There are little patches of Dixie. But even in the heart of Dixie - in Alabama - Dixie is slipping. They've stopped using the word in commercial listings. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#commercial #dixie #even #fallen #heart

Every Southerner, I think, knows people like Bill Clinton, maybe not quite as smart and maybe not quite as liberal, but kind of a glad-handing, country-club yuppie Southerner. The problem is we don't have labels for middle-class Southerners. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#bill clinton #clinton #every #i #i think

People say that writers write for money. From my own experience that's not true. I write for me. I publish for money. ↗

— Greg Curtis

#writing-advice #experience

I can see why many Southerners, black ones in particular, don't like the implication that Southernness and the Confederate heritage are one and the same, because they're not. On the other hand, there are people who want to extirpate that completely and want folks to spit on the graves of their ancestors. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#because #black #completely #confederate #folks

I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#better #customers #doctrine #forgetting #got