John Shelton Reed Quotes

You know, I love the South.

We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners.

It's always on everyone's list, like, 'What's New Orleans like?' I think people have a pre-conceived idea, like it's just Mardi Gras and Bourbon Street. But really, there's so much culture, the music's great, the food's great. It's not good for the waistline! But I'm actually from the South, I'm from Georgia, so the weather doesn't bother me.

You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.

The South is like a foreign country to me!

Yes, I'm a real southern boy.

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

While I've said that there are plenty of things I dislike about the South, I can be clear that there are things I love about the South.

Nations and races change with the change of periods and the passage of time.

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

I'm from the South - I love to eat, and that's why I have to exercise.

If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches and most Southerners don't live there any more.

The two ethnic groups that remain fundamentally different from the Han Chinese - in terms of history, culture, language, religion and physical appearance - are the Uighurs and Tibetans. In these two groups, the Han Chinese come face to face with difference.

I grew up in Louisiana and spent my formative years there. There's a contradictory nature to the place and a sort of sinister quality underneath it all.

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.

In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.

For breakfast I have grits, because I'm a Southern girl!

Attitudes toward food have completely changed.

Being so closely related to the South, barbecue was part of segregation and helped defeat it.

Southern people remind me a lot of Australia.

As you know, the South is known for its hospitality, traditions, football, pageants, and food. Football is almost like a religion here. People say their priorities are faith, family, and then football. People eat, breathe, and sleep it in the South. It's a huge deal.

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.

Any Southerner is spoiled when it comes to food.