Old black water, keep on rollin' Mississippi moon won't you keep on shinin' on me? — Patrick Simmons Copy Share Image
I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience. — Elliott Smith Copy Share Image
My maternal grandmother was a star on her high school basketball team in small-town Mississippi. — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
There is no doubt in my mind that we need to spend more money on roads and bridges in Mississippi. — Tate Reeves Copy Share Image
I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
I grew up in Mississippi. I was there for 13 years, and then when I turned 13, I moved out to L.A. — Israel Broussard Copy Share Image
If I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city. — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
As I grew older I began to realize that Mississippi really wasn't that bad. The basis for progress has always been there.… — Mike Espy Copy Share Image
Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on… — Ernie Harwell Copy Share Image
And Thames and all the rivers of the kings Ran into Mississippi and were drowned. They planted England with a stubborn trust… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
I'm street smart. You can't con me. But that's just from living in New York. Now if a guy came from Mississippi… — J. B. Smoove Copy Share Image
My name is Natasha Trethewey, and I was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1966, exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all… — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
I lived in a small city on the Mississippi River across from Iowa, so I didn't have a country upbringing, but in… — Lissie Copy Share Image
“And there was no entertainment for them at night. They were too poor to own a television set. But they seemed content.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
We must educate and train our children to compete and succeed in the 21st century. Our kids are not going to grow… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Take Washington, D.C., which spends over $10,000 per student for education whose student achievement would be dead last if Mississippi chose to… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The real problem in Mississippi is almost a complete moral breakdown. In order to move Mississippi from the bottom to the top,… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
I remember being at the church a few hours after the church was bombed in Birmingham, the 16th Street Baptist Church. It… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
[My mother] tried so hard to make life easy for us. Those are the things that forced me to try to do… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
I am fascinated by the places that music comes from, like fife-and-drum blues from southern Mississippi or Cajun music out of Lafayette,… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
Like a majority of Americans in recent years, I came to understand that fear of homosexuality was leading our governments - including… — Ronnie Musgrove Copy Share Image
I believe, the NAACP began to try to organize parents of Negro children to file petitions with the boards of education regarding… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
Clearly we're in historic times here. We have - one of the tributaries of the Mississippi River is a river called the… — Jay Nixon Copy Share Image
My personal beliefs were shaped more by experience and by watching the news when I was young: images of angelic-looking college students… — James Vance Copy Share Image
“Harris loved to read and he shared everything he read. He read to whoever happened to be in the room from whatever… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
. . .in August in Mississippi there’s a few days somewhere about the middle of the month when suddenly there’s a foretaste… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I was just an infant when [Fannie Lou] Hamer spoke - barley even awake in the world. But here she was, pressing… — Leah D. Daughtry Copy Share Image
The only thing we took out was the Constitution of the State of Mississippi and the interpretation of the Constitution. We had… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
To secure the safety of the navigation of the Mississippi River I would slay millions. On that point I am not only… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
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