Memorable Quotations: American Southern Writers

This collection of remarkable quotations is a gem of discerning wisdom, lovely thoughts, and astute wit gleaned from the words of American Southern Writers, including Zoe Akins, Katharine Susan Anthony, Arna Bontemps, William Wells Brown, William Burroughs, Truman Capote, Willa Cather, Kate Chopin, Eldridge Cleaver, Anna J. Cooper, Dorothy Dix, Frederick Douglass, T. S. Eliot, Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, Zelda Fitzgerald, Ernest Gaines, Martha Gellhorn, Nikki Giovanni, Ellen Glasgow, Angelina Weld Grimke, Alex Haley, Henry Hampton, Elizabeth Hardwick, Lillian Hellman, Bell Hooks, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Harriet Jacobs, James Weldon Johnson, Helen Keller, Martin Luther King, Jr., Harper Lee, Carson McCullers, H. L. Mencken, Margaret Mitchell, Marianne Moore, Reinhold Niebuhr, Flannery O'Connor, O. Henry, Katherine Anne Porter, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Grantland Rice, Anne Spencer, William Styron, Harriet Tubman, Mark Twain, Alice Walker, Margaret Walker, Booker T. Washington, Eudora Welty, Tennessee Williams, Richard Wright, and Frank Yerby.