The mentality of who is your uncle—an ethnocentric way of thinking, is one of the leading causes of South Sudan’s internal conflicts.
Everyone thinks because you're from the south you know everyone down there, but it's not like that; I never knew nothing about no Mississippi.
The north-south line of 'the mountains,' meaning the Cascade Range, forty miles east of Seattle, is a rigid political frontier.
No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.
The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.
Before moving to Pennsylvania in 1999, I played bass in a newsroom rock band in South Florida for several years.
In many of the high schools in the South Bronx, more children will end up in prison than will go to college.
I have always thought that the rapid economic development of South Africa would in the long run prove to be incompatible with the government's racial policies, and recent events have tended to confirm my opinion.
We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
I go back to South Africa at least once a year, sometimes twice, and usually for a month. And probably, I'm guessing, I'll spend more time back there as I get older.
I grew up in South Africa, but like many people at that time, I couldn't bear living in the country. The main motivation for moving to Britain was to get away.
My usual route is, I do a play at South Coast Rep, then there's time between and I revise it, and then I take it to New York.
Back in the mid-18th century, in 1745-1747, Ossetia was the first to become part of the Russian Empire. At that time, it was a united entity; North and South Ossetia were one state.
Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two different sorts of rural: the South and Appalachia.
Gandhi: [to a group of South African bigots] You'll find there's room for all of us here.
You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I'll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific.
I'm from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region.
I'm always very proud of belonging to three minorities: gay, Jewish, white South African.
I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.
The rivalry is huge between South Carolina and Clemson. It's major bragging rights; one of the most intense things I've been a part of.
I'm such a tomboy - I was raised in the South - and I also really wanted to work in New York, being so different from California, though it was a freezing-cold winter.
