I think a proud Southerner is a Southerner who is aware of his or her past, and being … - William R. Ferris

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William R. Ferris

I think a proud Southerner is a Southerner who is aware of his or her past, and being proud of one's past does not mean you accept it. It means that you realize that we've come through the fire, and we're headed in another direction.

Accept, Fire, Headed, Mean, Past, Thinking

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A Daring Life: A Biography of Eudora Welty is a beautifully written portrait of Eudora Welty and her amazing life. Carolyn J. Brown carries the reader through Welty's long, productive writing career and introduces her family and friends along the way. The book's very readable text, its lovely use of Welty quotes, and its excellent photographs make the work a treasure. This intimate look at Eudora Welty is a welcome addition for her readers.

Beautifully, Book, Careers, Intimate, Welty, Writing

The Moon Pie is a bedrock of the country store and rural tradition. It is more than a snack. It is a cultural artifact.

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Where you find obesity, you'll find poverty. It's a reflection of the South's struggle to raise its standard of living.

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I think the ties to slavery and the terrible tragedy that followed the Civil War with Jim Crow and racial violence is closely linked to the Confederate flag.

Crow, Thinking, Ties, Tragedy, Violence, War

When we say the South lost the Civil War, we mean the white South. The blacks were liberated. And it's trying to redefine this Southern myth and bring it in a more positive direction.

Direction, Mean, Redefine, War, White

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We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates our birth as a biological species and stretches back over many thousand millennia. . . Going further back, we share a common ancestry with our fellow primates; and going still further back, we share a common ancestry with all other living creatures and plants down to the simplest microbe. The further back we go, the greater the difference from external appearances and behavior patterns which we observe today.

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Right now you are one choice away from a new beginning - one that leads you toward becoming the fullest human being you can be.

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Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.

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