As long as there are Japanese tourists, there will be a market for the Old South.

Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the US to Europe’s wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.

Drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.

Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics.

Every time I look at Atlanta I see what a quarter of a million Confederate soldiers died to prevent.

I don't think massification and globalization and all those other 'izations' are necessarily hostile to regionalism.

Southerners smile more than other Americans.

The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern?

Why can I write 'South' with some assurance that you'll know I mean Richmond and don't mean Phoenix? What is it that the South's boundaries enclose?

If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches and most Southerners don't live there any more.

Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record.

When you look away from a homeless person, you diminish their humanity and your own.

I am not the Messiah. I am a simple human being with the unlimited power of love and kindness.

Never give up your wife, husband, children and families.Believe that people can change.Give others opportunity to change.

The past lives through us. We are its legacy.

The nearer the dawn the darker the night.

Every intention is a trigger for transformation.

I was a fat little kid with a speech impediment. I used to get beat up, not just picked on.

It is unmistakable madness to live in poverty only to die rich.

I would never scream at my kids, never raise my voice. But as they often tell me, they were so well behaved that screaming was not necessary.

Ah! two desires toss about The poet's feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.