Jahlil Okafor Quotes

I'm Southern to the bone.

I'm too Southern.

I grew up mostly in the South, and there's definitely something about the South that's different from the North. When people ask me where I'm from, I say Louisiana. I spent more years there than anywhere else.

I desire my children to be educated south of the Mason Dixon line and always to retain right of domicile in the Confederate States.

The South is like a foreign country to me!

I'm still true to my Southern roots.

You know, I love the South.

Yes, I'm a real southern boy.

I'm from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region.

You know, Southerners are pretty cool.

Driving through much of the southern part of the U.S. reminds me of where I grew up in Canada. The trees, homes, sense of community... I love the South.

Southern people remind me a lot of Australia.

I'm from East Texas, yes.

To be in the South in my first big job was very nostalgic. There is an energy to the way we do things in the South.

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

I think things like food, the food of the south is sort of the common tie that binds us all, Black and White, the sense memories. It's a very particular part of the country.

Next to fried foods, the South has suffered most from oratory.

I'm not opposed - we manufacture a lot of socks in North Carolina - I just choose not to wear them. It's a Southern thing. It's a cultural thing.

I love Southern rock; it's because I grew up on it, and no matter where I am, I'll always be a Georgia girl.

There's something about Southern characters.

My dad's family was from Tennessee. I grew up in Lynchburg, Virginia, where we lived at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains. As a kid, I was totally into Southern rock. Lynyrd Skynyrd. ZZ Top. It was so part of who I was.

I was raised a proper Southern boy.

Boiled peanuts are a Southern thing.

I think there is such a richness to the South and a lushness and a way of life.

I grew up in Texas, and I think anybody who grows up in the Midwest or in the South, it's just a different way of life.