I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way… — Muddy Waters Copy Share Image
Of course, Mississippi participates in federal matching programs for everything from preserving the post-Civil War home of Jefferson Davis to beaver control. — Ronnie Musgrove Copy Share Image
I hear Raleigh's new accounting business isn't doing well. Maybe up in New York or somewhere it's a good thing, but in… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
I loved Mississippi and do to this day. The rainbows that stretch from horizon to horizon after a summer rain are the… — Charley Pride Copy Share Image
My models for graceful aging are guys like John Lee Hooker and Mississippi John Hurt, who never stopped working till they dropped,… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember.… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
Within days they'd formed an unholy alliance with a foppish young French vampire in the Garden District who had implausibly golden hair… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
Im from Dallas. My whole family is based in Texas and Mississippi and Arkansas, spread throughout most of the South. — Jay R. Ferguson Copy Share Image
I stand here struggling for the rights of my people to be full citizens in this country. They are not-in Mississippi. They… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
Safe from the Neighbors is a novel of unusual richness and depth, one that's as wise about the small shocks within a… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
There is a velvety sensuality here at the mouth of the Mississippi that you won't find anywhere else. Tell me what the… — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
“Between 1882 and 1968, more black people were lynched in Mississippi than in any other state. “You and I know what’s the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Remember...this year has already seen more billion-dollar weather-related disasters than any year in US history. Last year was the warmest ever recorded… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
One thing I noticed after being down in Mississippi for the shoot was that words like "God" and "Jesus" are used all… — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
The only thing I really feel is necessary is that the black people, not only in Mississippi, will have to actually upset… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
Though Anne was born in Alabama and schooled in Mississippi, she had traveled North, and, like many Southerners, gained a theoretical understanding… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
My passion comes from the things that have historically happened to black people in Mississippi. I can honestly say that most of… — David Banner Copy Share Image
Growing up in Mississippi, I was such a farmer, and it's not desirable to bring attention to yourself. That's my nature, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even Solon Gregg was finding it hard to speak to a woman who had just paid hard cash for tampons and on… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
The Mississippi, the Ganges, and the Nile,... the Rocky Mountains, the Himmaleh, and Mountains of the Moon, have a kind of personal… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The economic importance of small businesses in Mississippi has always been significant, and it's well positioned to increase. — Cindy Hyde-Smith Copy Share Image
When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I feel like I can be myself in L.A. I feel like Mississippi is a little close-minded; not all of Mississippi is,… — Israel Broussard Copy Share Image
I come from a family of Mississippi sharecroppers just a few generations away from slavery, and I experienced a lot of racism… — Carrie Mae Weems Copy Share Image
This is not the party of Reagan. Today the conservative movement took a backseat to liberal Democrats in the state of Mississippi. — Chris McDaniel Copy Share Image
I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
The literacy level at Mississippi prisons? Fifth grade. Can't read, what are you going to do? If you've got a conviction rap,… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
“The Mississippi was now in our possession from its source to its mouth, except in the immediate front of Vicksburg and of… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
I was in elementary school in Mississippi, and when Katrina hit, my mom put me in home school. So ever since sixth… — Israel Broussard Copy Share Image
While I remain troubled by the Corps' inability to fully justify the Model they used for their commercial traffic predictions, America clearly… — Ron Kind Copy Share Image
I have been in the witness protection program for the last three weeks. I campaigned for Ralph Nader. I'm now living as… — Phil Donahue Copy Share Image
Owing to the difficulty of obtaining horses, Mr. Henry returns from this place. In descending the Mississippi I will request him to… — Zebulon Pike Copy Share Image
I don't know how many ways I can explain this to y'all but I'm opposed to Obamacare expansion in Mississippi because it… — Tate Reeves Copy Share Image
A great symphony is a man-made Mississippi down which we irresistibly flow from the instant of our leave-taking to a long forseen… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
Several other aerospace and defense firms have announced plans to build facilities in north Mississippi in recent weeks. They join an impressive… — Roger Wicker Copy Share Image
She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
If ever we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down till that tribe is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I grew up in Mississippi being told it was a great place, but not feeling that. When I finally began reading seriously,… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I mean a real police state just to get a token recognition of a law. It take, it took, I think, 15,000… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
