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  • A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
  • Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.
  • To me, everything outside of Los Angeles is the 'south,' including places like San Diego. It's sort of like the saying, 'Everything is God.' Indeed it is.
  • The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death.
  • So one of the things that happened with integration in the South is they found that the black teachers were much more educated than the white teachers.
  • Everyone thinks because you're from the south you know everyone down there, but it's not like that; I never knew nothing about no Mississippi.
  • The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings. [Gone With The Wind]
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  • Blake Anderson 'South Park' is so hilarious... I remember when it first came out: that show changed television forever.
    Blake Anderson
    American actor, comedian and producer (1984 - )
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  • Bill Bryson A friend Alan and I ended up in an Outback pub in a place called Daly Waters and apparently, he says, in the course of this very lively evening we spent there I offered to do a house swap with a family from Korea. We weren't sure whether they were from North Korea or South Korea.
    Interview with Stanfords Newsletter (June 2001)
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • A. Whitney Brown A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
    A. Whitney Brown
    American writer and comedian (1952 - )
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  • Carlos Salinas A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries.
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  • Robert South Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
    Robert South
    English churchman (1634 - 1716)
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  • Antony Sher As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.
    Antony Sher
    British actor (1949 - )
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  • Carolyn Kizer As I remember, the first real poem I wrote was about the wheat fields between Spokane and Pullman, to the south.
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  • Bobby Seale Being so closely related to the South, barbecue was part of segregation and helped defeat it.
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Philip Guedalla Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.
    Philip Guedalla
    British historical writer (1889 - 1944)
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  • Robert South Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.
    Robert South
    English churchman (1634 - 1716)
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  • Arundhati Roy Do you think that the people of South Africa, or anywhere on the continent of Africa, or India, or Pakistan are longing to be kicked around all over again?
    Arundhati Roy
    Indian author (1961 - )
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  • Barry Unsworth Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected.
    Barry Unsworth
    English writer (1930 - 2012)
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  • Buddy Guy Everyone thinks because you're from the south you know everyone down there, but it's not like that; I never knew nothing about no Mississippi.
    Buddy Guy
    American blues guitarist and singer (1936 - )
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  • Benjamin E. Mays For nearly a century, the South made itself believe that Negroes and white people were really communicating. So convinced of this were the white Southerners that they almost made the nation believe that they, and only they, knew the mind of the Southern Negro.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • Robert South Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.
    Robert South
    English churchman (1634 - 1716)
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  • Al Pacino I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx.
    Al Pacino
    American actor and filmmaker (1940 - )
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  • Alan Paton I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
    Alan Paton
    South African author and anti-apartheid activist (1903 - 1988)
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  • Hubert Humphrey I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Adrian Lyne I think you get better at staring into space. Especially living in the South of France.
    Adrian Lyne
    English film director, writer and producer (1941 - )
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  • Al Sharpton I was there during the first elections in South Africa. I watched them take down the apartheid flag and raise the new flag.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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