James McBride Quotes

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

Tennessee Williams knew about the South, but he would clean it up and lie about it.

Well, I'm from the South originally. I grew up in South Carolina definitely learning about manners and being proper and having to go to cotillions.

I was raised a proper Southern boy.

I decided to deflect her attitude by giving a long, Southern answer. I come from people who know how to draw things out. Annoy a Southerner, and we will drain away the moments of your life with our slow, detailed replies until you are nothing but a husk of your former self and that much closer to death.

Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic.

O magnet-South! O glistening perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! Good and evil! O all dear to me!

The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South.

Southern gentility is evocative to me.

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

I like being Southern; I like going to Cracker Barrel - I mean, that's just how I am.

Tuscaloosa, Alabama - I love you.

I'm Southern to the bone.

I bring a lot of 'y'all' up to New York with me.

I love being Southern because of the people and the fans we have. People down here are more friendly - really warm people.

I was born and raised in Louisiana - a small town called Ferriday, north of Baton Rouge.

I grew up in the South, and I think there are lots of people who have distorted views of the South.

The crowds have always been known to be pretty loud and wild in the South.

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.

We're just Southern people.

I'm happy that I know how to speak 'Southern.' I spent a lot of time in Alabama throughout my life. I even lived there for part of junior high and high school, so I learned the true beauty and mastery of the Southern dialect. 'Y'all' is one of the greatest and most useful words ever invented.

My Southern heritage is a big part of who I am. I grew up around people who seemed like characters but are actual, real people. My grandmother made sure I had manners and all that stuff.

I'm from a part of Florida that is very close to Georgia in the panhandle area. I have a very colorful Southern family.

For one, the 'countryness' is pretty much in my blood. I'm from Georgia, down south. That voice just lives in me.

I'm too Southern.