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Even in my adult years, when I heard a white person speaking in a Southern accent I was initially suspicious.
The working-class black Southern Christian culture I come from still nurtures me, and I mean directly, daily.
You know what southern women are? Whiskey in a teacup. We're strong in the inside, but ornate on the outside.
I don't necessarily think of it as Southern comedy. I just think I'm a comedian and I have a Southern accent.
I grew up in Southern Oregon. My father was a sawmill worker and a logger, and his job put food on the table.
The Sisters were Southern Baptist, and they went to church on Saturdays and Sundays, and most other days, too.
There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal.
I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.
As long as there is a Southern Ocean whale sanctuary, Sea Shepherd crew will continue to patrol and defend it.
I was more influenced by players like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen than by the guys in southern rock bands.
I have made comments in favour of British people getting jobs over and above those from southern eastern Europe.
From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California.
I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness.
I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.
On 'Justified', we're driving all around Southern California trying to find a location that we can call Kentucky.
On 'Justified,' we're driving all around Southern California trying to find a location that we can call Kentucky.
Jeb [Bush] said when they [people influenced by ISIS] come across the southern border they come as an act of love.
When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.
It is as if one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the Southern Hemisphere of the brain.
I had never seen an avocado until I came to London in 1994. They just weren't a feature of southern Italian cuisine.
Basically as someone who grew up in Delhi, crooning in southern languages which I don't understand is very difficult.
I don't know how it is up North, of course, but down South there are times when Southern women feel a need for privacy.
As someone who has grown up living in Southern California, I know all too well about the costs and scarcities of water.
I'd like to be able to use Storm's powers for good, like have it rain more in Southern California. We could do with it.
Los Angelesand all of southern california is destined to become the greatest metropolitan area the world has ever known.
I think Tabasco brings me pure heat and Southern kind of familiarity, along with the vinegar and the barrel-aged spices.
I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church, where my father was a minister at music, so I sang in the church all the time.
Well, you could become a Southern Baptist. I mean, instead of having to obey the Pope, you could just obey your husband.
It was the silent time before dawn, along the shores of what had been one of the most beautiful lakes in southern Africa.
In college, I had a big fixation with Southern Gothic literature. Flannery O'Connor, I read every word she's ever written.
I must say one thing about southern down-home brewed coffee with chicory. If you have worms, you'll never have them again.
My little sister Debbie was born at Aldergrove, and my nan is from southern Ireland, so I do try and get over quite a bit.
We still need to secure our southern border. The other thing I would say is we need to secure who visits us in the country.
The fact that I have a Southern accent and write about a lot of rural things leads people to put me in the country category.
I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn't hold 'em under long enough.
Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.
I could probably go on for a long time about the differences between Northern California and Southern California Mexican food.
It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing.
The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.
If you like good ol' fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad.
Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.
It's the greatest of Southern honors . . . to have one's name incorporated into a family tree. It's an honor not lightly given.
The work the Mexicans are doing in terms of migration control on Mexico's southern border is crucial to our own border security.
I like to think I am well-mannered. If I have the option at a breakfast place, I'll go with the grits. That's how Southern I am.
A new restaurant here in Southern California requires women to wear high heels. I'm outraged! This is sexist! Why just the women?
Fully fund the construction of a wall on our southern border. Don't worry about it. Remember, I said Mexico is paying for the wall.
Black Velvet in that little boys smile, Black Velvet with that slow southern style. A new religion that'll bring you to your knees.
It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are yourself the slave-driver.
YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown.
The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.