Quotes with southerners

  • Writing about where I was from and the people I knew was not something that would have occurred to me early on, because like so many Southerners of that period - the Sixties - I rejected those things when I went north.

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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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  • Bobbie Ann Mason Writing about where I was from and the people I knew was not something that would have occurred to me early on, because like so many Southerners of that period - the Sixties - I rejected those things when I went north.
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    American novelist and short story writer
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