Carolina Quotes
So you see, my message is that you can't take the person's identity away from them. That's yours. Nobody can stamp approval on it and nobody can take it away.
Ruth Dial Woods Carolinian
Source
Interview with Anne Mitchell Coe and Laura Moore, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, June 12, 1992; Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007), Interview L-0078, Documenting the American South, UNC-Chapel Hill
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- Oral History Interview with Ruth Dial Woods, Interview L-0078
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- 1992
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