Southern Slang Quotes

In the south there's a difference between 'Naked' and 'Nekkid.' 'Naked' means you don't have any clothes on. 'Nekkid' means you don't have any clothes on and you're up to somethin'.

I had someone correct my grammar once on a blind date, and within the first 10 minutes the date was over. You just don't correct somebody's grammar. That's just not okay. I'm from Tennessee, so I probably say everything wrong. I might have said 'ain't,' or something like that.

Yankees don't understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is we can take a word and change it just a little bit and make it mean something altogether different.

I'm a Southern guy, so Jeezy, T.I., and Outkast are always playing on my iPod.

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.

If you think a quaterhorse is that ride in front of Kmart.. You might be a rednneck

I have cousins in North Carolina who talk in that old Southern style of 'yakking,' if you will. All the black men in my life when I was a boy talked that way, and I love that kind of talk.

The East Texas accent is a famously difficult accent to do.

I had family in Carolina who were very hood and talked differently in this sort of Southern cadence.

Don't 'honey' me in that southern-fried twang.

A lot of people say I talk like 'country-gangster' almost. I don't know how that's possible or how that happens, but some people say that.

It's impossible to explain to a Yankee what 'tacky' is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one.