Jesmyn Ward Quotes

You know, I love the South.

The South is like a foreign country to me!

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

New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South.

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.

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

I'd spent summers growing up in Mississippi, so I had an idea of what the South is like.

Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

I think we typically, as Northerners, stereotype what the South is in so many negative ways. We kind of forget all the beautiful things that they contribute to make this country a country.

I'm from Dallas. My whole family is based in Texas and Mississippi and Arkansas, spread throughout most of the South.

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.

Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two different sorts of rural: the South and Appalachia.

I'm still true to my Southern roots.

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 born and raised in the South, which is pretty conservative.

You know, Southerners are pretty cool.

Southern people remind me a lot of Australia.

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