“I've been to Japan, I've been to China, I've been to Africa, I've been to the Middle East, I've been to Europe a little bit. I've never been to South America.” LittlesAmericaBitsMiddleLittle BitEuropeSouthChinaEastJapanMiddle EastSouth America Author:Colin Quinn
“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.” WayMeanLittlesDifferentLanguageBitsCan DoTalkingLittle BitSouthSouthernYankeesNuanceWay Of Talking Author:Lewis Grizzard
“Coming from the South, I just felt you had to work just a little bit harder. It was not going to be handed to you. I’d get the letters from all the major schools but no one came out to talk to me face to face until this small, dominant black school, Mississippi State Valley University sent a coach out to me. I had a chance to talk to him and he said, ‘Hey Jerry, we’re going to be doing some great things at Mississippi Valley State University and we would love to have you there.’” LittlesSaidStatesSchoolFacesFeltBitsBlackChanceMajorsLittle BitLettersHarderSouthUniversityCoachesGreat ThingsHeyValleysDominantFace To FaceMississippiTalk To MeJerryMississippi State Author:Jerry Rice
“We're living in what used to be Mexico, and there's this very fluid border feeling. You go a little bit south of Tijuana, for instance, into Ensenada, and it still seems kind of borderlike. And you go much farther, suddenly the prices are lower, the prostitution is different, the commerce is different, everything feels more "Mexican."” FeelsKindLittlesStillsDifferentFeelingsSeemsUsedBitsLittle BitSouthUsed To BeInstanceBordersMexicoCommerceMexicanProstitutionFluidE CommerceTijuana Author:William T. Vollmann
“I had been in Chicago for 22 years, and my wife and I didn't want to see another Chicago winter. Its a wonderful town but the winters are brutal. My wife and I are both east coast people and we wanted to live someplace a little bit warmer but didn't want to live way down south. So Delaware seemed like a good compromise.” PeopleWayWantYearsLittlesWantedBitsWifeWonderfulLittle BitTownsSouthWinterMy WifeEastCompromiseChicagoBrutalCoastEast CoastDelaware Author:David Bromberg
“The South Vietnamese were perhaps a little bit slow in doing things, they jump on, on the problem and they try to do themselves everything. Or, they try to have some short cuts with the, those people they were dealing with.” PeopleTryingLittlesProblemBitsCuttingLittle BitSouthVietnameseShort Cuts Author:Bui Diem
“It happens a little bit more in the West, where there's more fluid - where everybody's originally from somewhere else. So they have a little bit more permission to do it. It happens the least, at the individual level at least, in the South, because the South has very strong, you know, set up black churches and white churches and a long history of that, and so it's a bigger social cost.” KnowsLittlesLongHappensIndividualStrongSocialBitsBlackChurchWhiteLevelsCostLittle BitBiggerWestSouthVery StrongPermissionSomewhere ElseFluidBlack Church Author:Michael Emerson
“One of the things we find when we talk to people that attend these congregations, they all have social cost to it. People want to know why they're doing that. Sometimes they're questions about selling out on their race or "Are we not good enough that you have to go to this kind of congregation and not ours?" So there are costs to it, and I think they're a little bit higher in the South because of its history.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantKindLittlesSometimesEnoughSocialBitsRaceHigherCostLittle BitSouthSellingGood EnoughNot Good EnoughCongregationSelling Out Author:Michael Emerson
“Before I was a vegetarian, I traveled to South Africa and hung out there for a little bit. And they had different animals - did you know different parts of the world have different animals? Because I didn't until I got there! This is what being an American is like. You're like, "Every place has these animals."” KnowsWorldLittlesDifferentBitsAnimalLike YouLittle BitSouthVegetarianSouth AfricaHungTraveledDid You KnowDifferent Animals Author:Cameron Esposito
“I was in church a little bit as a very young kid, but, as they say in the South, 'it didnt take.' None of it took with me.” LittlesKidsYoungBitsChurchLittle BitSouth Author:Randy Travis