Everything east of the Mississippi is west of the…

Whether in public office or right here at home, I will never stop fighting for Mississippi. From the Delta to East Mississippi up to…

— Mike Espy

I feel like I can be myself in L.A. I feel like Mississippi is a little close-minded; not all of Mississippi is, but just…

— Israel Broussard

The people of Mississippi can't just go home, shut down their small business, shut down their restaurants, shut down their gyms... and just think…

— Tate Reeves

The real problem in Mississippi is almost a complete moral breakdown. In order to move Mississippi from the bottom to the top, all we…

— James Meredith

I'm going to stand up for the good name of Mississippi, just like I did for Mike Espy's good name.

— Mike Espy

“Andrew Jackson was the implementer of the final solution for the Indigenous peoples east of the Mississippi. Andrew”

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Nothing could stop Mississippi.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“The only thing worse than saying something boring is to quote someone else's boring saying”

— Lee Owens

Barge traffic on the Mississippi River represents the most efficient, most cost-effective, most environmentally sound means of transporting commodity goods from this region of…

— Leonard Boswell

Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues…

— Robert Plant

I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1969, in a time and place where no one was saying, 'Look how far we've come,' because…

— Kathryn Stockett

I mean a real police state just to get a token recognition of a law. It take, it took, I think, 15,000 troops and…

— Malcolm X

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

— William Faulkner

“Maybe he was destined to die under the fading shadow of a plastic dinosaur surrounded by pickpockets, hookers, and panhandlers, but at least he’d…

— Richard Kadrey