“In those days [1955], affirmative action was for whites only. I might still be working for the grocery store in the small Texas town where I grew up were it not for affirmative action for Southern white boys.” StillsMightActionWhiteBoysGrewGrew UpTownsStoresTexasSouthernGroceriesAffirmative ActionAffirmativeGrocery Stores Author:Bill Moyers
“The children of the white families in town were not permitted to associate with me, because my father was committing the then unpardonable crime, in Southern eyes, of educating negroes.” ChildrenEyeFatherWhiteCrimeTownsSouthernAssociates Author:Lee De Forest
“Baltimore's often called the most northern Southern town. It has a distinct essence. It's definitely post-industrial, definitely Rust Belt, very working-class. I grew up outside of Washington, and I felt I was moving to a completely different place when I moved 30 miles north out of college.” DifferentMovingFeltClassCollegeGrewGrew UpEssenceTownsMovedMilesPostsSouthernWorking ClassBeltsDifferent PlaceRustBaltimore Author:David Simon
“My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy. He came to New York when he was 20. He lived in the States from age 20 to 96, but he brought his culture with him, he brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.” YearsStatesAgeCultureLanguageBornNew YorkTownsSpokesSouthernGrandfatherMy GrandfatherSouthern Italy Author:Abel Ferrara
“They [Rappites] were moving from Southern Indiana to Pennsylvania, where they had originally settled when they came from Germany. They were looking for someone who wanted to buy a pre-built town, which wouldn't have been appropriate for any kind of normal settlement. That's when Robert Owen [Welsh industrialist and utopian socialist] buys the village and founds New Harmony.” KindHas BeensWantedMovingFoundNormalBuiltTownsHarmonyGermanyAppropriateVillageSouthernSocialistSettlementUtopianIndianaPennsylvaniaWelsh Author:Christine Jennings
“Harper Lee was legendarily private. I've never known such a private woman in my life. It's no surprise that she left Monroeville, a gossipy little southern town where everybody wants to know everybody's business, and went to the most anonymous city in America.” KnowsWantLittlesAmericaLeftCitiesKnownTownsSurpriseSouthernHarper Author:Wayne Flynt
“I'm a southern girl, and I grew up with this slightly schizophrenic upbringing where I bounced back and forth between Atlanta, Georgia, and a tiny mountain town called Brevard, North Carolina. My parents were divorced, and my two lives were very different because of socioeconomic reasons.” TwoDifferentReasonGirlParentGrewMountainGrew UpTownsTinySouthernDivorcedBack And ForthUpbringingGeorgiaCarolinaAtlantaNorth CarolinaSchizophrenicTwo LivesSouthern GirlAtlanta Georgia Author:Lauren Myracle
“I came to poetry at fourteen, in the middle of a booming oil-rush town in southern Arabia without a single public library: Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. All the wealth in the world and not a single intelligent idea as to how to employ it.” WorldIdeasWealthUnitedMiddleIntelligentTownsLibraryOilSouthernArabiaFourteenPublic LibraryEmirates Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely
“I'm a small town boy from a place not too different from Farmville. I grew up with a corn field in my backyard. My grandfather had emigrated to this country when he was about my son's age. My mom and dad built everything that matters in a small town in southern Indiana. They built a family and a good name and a business, and they raised a family.” DifferentCountryMatterAgeNamesBoysFieldsSonGrewMomDadGrew UpBuiltTownsRaisedMy MomMy SonSouthernGrandfatherSmall TownCornMy GrandfatherBackyardsIndianaMom And Dad Author:Mike Pence
“I'm from Arizona where I feel like our history, as a state, is so young in comparison to some of these wonderful southern cities and towns.” FeelsStatesYoungCitiesWonderfulTownsComparisonSouthernArizonaCities And Towns Author:Janet Varney
“Chicago is seen as everything that Trump detests, which I think kind of reflects really well on the city I think, because it's a mark of what a classy, cool, sort of place it is. You can't tame everyone in America, as much as these people would like to, into some kind of small-town, Southern community.” PeopleThinkingWellsKindAmericaCommunityCitiesTrumpMarkTownsChicagoSouthernSmall Town Author:Irvine Welsh
“I grew up in a small Southern town, and there were white people and black people. Coming to New York to go to Columbia, every time I went into the subway I was absolutely astounded because you see people from all over the world who actually live here - who aren't just here as tourists.” PeopleWorldBlackWhiteNew YorkGrewGrew UpTownsSouthernBlack PeopleTouristsSubwayColumbiaAstounded Author:Tony Kushner
“My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first blacks in my town to own land. But, I was worried about my history being caked with that southern clay, and I subscribed to a different kind of teaching and learning in my bones and in my spirit.” FeelsFirstsKindDifferentWantedSpiritTeachingLandTownsBonesWorriedFarmersSouthernDifferent KindsDaddyClayAlabamaTeaching And Learning Author:John Henrik Clarke
“I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite” ThinkingDoeHollywoodOppositesTownsSouthernSmall TownClicheSmall Town Life Author:Josh Lucas