Ray Hicks

North Carolina · born or raised1922–2003

American storyteller (1922-2003)

Born in Banner Elk

Quotations with a citation

Then's when we'd tell the old tales about Jack. Why, them kids would work for hours and never a sound out of them, long as I'd keep telling them tales.

Somehow the girls weren't interested in me. God was holding me for the one I got.

A haint is something you’d see if you was walking along the road in the dark that’d make your backbone want to crawl out of your back. Maybe a branch moving, or a head up on a post. In the morning, you’d go back and see owl droppings.

But I stay here on the old homeplace like a rabbit in the briar patch.

There is one soul of everything. Now that’s everything alike. We don’t have dog souls, they have one dog soul, and we have one soul of human spirit.