Kara Walker Quotes

There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can't get rid of it, but it's not something that's terribly obvious.

The South: What is this place? What's different about it? Is it different anymore? Good questions. Old ones, too. People have been asking them for decades. Some of us even make our living by asking them, but we still don't agree about the answers.

I'm still true to my Southern roots.

As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters.

I don't want to cancel the South out in my life. I carry my Southernness with me. God knows, it's a great place to come from. It's also a place I had to get away from. It is just an endless world for me, so much culture and eccentricity.

I am southern - from the great state of South Carolina. They say, 'You can take the girl out of the South, but you can't take the South out of the girl.' And it's true.

I love the South. Although I grew up primarily in Memphis, my family moved around a ton when I was a kid. I guess I never stayed in one place long enough to pick up the accent, but I definitely identify as a Southerner.

what will the South be like without all our fine boys? What would the South have been if they had lived?

Professional Southerners sicken me.

Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern.

I'm a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve.

There's no such thing as being too Southern.

I had been to the South many times and I thought I knew what the South was, but not until you live with people and live through their lives do you know what it's really about.

There's something about Southern women that is so unique yet so universal. Strong southern women are allowed to be soft and feminine and have a sense of humor. But what I love about Southern women in particular is their universality.

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

The Old South offered little advice to outsiders and accepted none from them…

Every Southern man sustains me. The fragments of the stick are begged for as sacred relicts. .

The South was influential in my life. It helped form who I am. I went to New York out of drama school, and I lived in California.

I always felt growing up that in the South there was evil but also good - so much good.

I'm Southern to the bone.

I was just a girl from Alabama.

Southern man better keep your head, don't forget what your good book says.

I am proud of being a Southerner. I wasn't about to let Southerners on my show be stupid or aw-shuckses who just sit on the front porch and spit in the yard. I wasn't about to do that, and I made that very clear from the start. I was kind of the gate-keeper on that stuff.

I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it

[The South] is ****ed for its virtues and praised for its faults, and there are those who wish its annihilation. But most revealing of all is the fear that it gestates the revolutionary impulse of our future.