I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go…

“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

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

— William Faulkner

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

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

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

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

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

— Lee Owens

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

Nothing could stop Mississippi.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

“As she drove the Trace, each curve revealing a scene rich with life and as picturesque as illustrations from a children's book, Anna was…

— Nevada Barr

If you're going to get elected to anything in Mississippi, you have to pay attention to and court the black vote.

— Mike Espy

I'm from the Mississippi delta originally.

— Little Milton

The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for…

— Mark Twain

My models for graceful aging are guys like John Lee Hooker and Mississippi John Hurt, who never stopped working till they dropped, as I…

— Bruce Cockburn

When I was growing up I always wanted to be a waitress. My sister opened a restaurant in Mississippi, and I went down there…

— Lacey Chabert