South of Haunted Dreams Quotes

“The rest of the world points an angry finger at the South. The rest of the world sees the cinders only in the eyes of southerners. The rest of the world refuses to see the soot in its own eyes.

The South, in attitude and in effect, is probably not much worse than the North--only in degree and display. It's simply that the South has always been honest about its hatred and its prejudice. Northern intolerance has been subtle, therefore more pernicious and snaring.”
― Eddy L. Harris, South of Haunted Dreams: A Memoir

“How are the white folks treating you?" He looked at me and sneered.

"This is Alabama, son," he said, though he seemed younger than I. "How do you think they're treating us?”
― Eddy L. Harris, South of Haunted Dreams: A Memoir

“I wondered if children ought to have heroes at all. The men and women we worship are as flawed as the men and women we don't.”
― Eddy L. Harris, South of Haunted Dreams: A Memoir

“I was young and stupid. I did not see limitations because of my race or my sex or my nationality. I didn't see limitations at all. Kids never do until they learn them.”
― Eddy L. Harris, South of Haunted Dreams: A Memoir

“White wasn't better, it turned out, or smarter. Just richer. Still richer. Always richer.”
― Eddy L. Harris, South of Haunted Dreams: A Memoir

“Perhaps in a way, then, the kindly old South is responsible for the violent present we have inherited. Since the founding of the republic the South has dictated and defined us. Perhaps the South, more even than the wild wild West, more in fact than any other region, is responsible for who we are as a people and as a nation. Since the very beginning the South has compromised us.”
― Eddy L. Harris, South of Haunted Dreams: A Memoir