Deep South Quotes
Personal memories and history from the American Deep South
These quotes offer personal reflections on growing up in the Deep South during the mid-20th century, including candid family memories about racial attitudes toward Black identity at the time.
In my life, I've had estates in Russia, houses in Spain, in Norway, in the deep south of America.
When I was growing up, my mother used to say, 'Don't ever bring no nappy-head Black girl to my house.' In the deep South in the '50s, '60s and '70s, the shade of your Blackness was considered important. So I,...
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Early on, one of my favorites was Ray Charles. I remember hearing 'I Can't Stop Loving You' in the early '60s and thinking, 'What an unbelievably soulful voice.' In those days, the Deep South was extremely segregated.
New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere.
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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.
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Others widen the lens to music and culture, recalling the soulful sound of Ray Charles and describing New Orleans as one of the more liberal Deep South cities of its era, shaped by Creole heritage and French influence.
