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I can see why many Southerners, black ones in particular, don't like the implication that Southernness and the Confederate heritage are one and the same, because they're not. On the other hand, there are people who want to extirpate that completely and want folks to spit on the graves of their ancestors. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#because #black #completely #confederate #folks

I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#better #customers #doctrine #forgetting #got

Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#been #both #brainwashed #confederate #ethnic

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is. ↗

— Lou Reed

#best #compass #else #i #idea

In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock'n'roll lifestyle. ↗

— Lou Reed

#i #insanity #interested #late #lifestyle

But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but. ↗

— Lou Reed

#created #doubt #great #i #know

When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment. ↗

— Lou Reed

#close #get #i #moment #perfect

I definitely think that females have a harder time. It's a lot harder to be a girl because you're always in your head. I've heard my brother go and take it out on the football as he says. Whereas girls would rather sit down and over think things. ↗

— Nikki Reed

#because #brother #definitely #down #females

Our love is perfect. And even though we may not be, our love creates a bridge that spans over our imperfections and joins us where it matters. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#imperfections #inspirational #love #perfect #experience

I have friends come over and we read plays out loud and I make paintings and I just do things all the time just so I don't ever feel like I'm sitting around. ↗

— Nikki Reed

#come #ever #feel #friends #i