To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi. — William Faulkner 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
I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1969, in a time and place where no one was saying, 'Look how far we've… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties,… — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
Barge traffic on the Mississippi River represents the most efficient, most cost-effective, most environmentally sound means of transporting commodity goods from this… — Leonard Boswell Copy Share Image
“The only thing worse than saying something boring is to quote someone else's boring saying” — Lee Owens Copy Share Image
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“As she drove the Trace, each curve revealing a scene rich with life and as picturesque as illustrations from a children's book,… — Nevada Barr Copy Share Image
The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was… — Mark Twain 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
When I was growing up I always wanted to be a waitress. My sister opened a restaurant in Mississippi, and I went… — Lacey Chabert Copy Share Image
I don't think the folks in the low-tax states really want to go into a fairness discussion. Residents of Connecticut and New… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
It's easy to whip up resentment against anything that smacks with authority. Nobody ever organizes over pan handlers. So even if a… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
When I was growing up in Mississippi - it was good Southern food... but I also grew up with a Greek family;… — Cat Cora 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
I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I have a record as governor. I have a record of cutting spending. And I talked yesterday not only about we ought… — Haley Barbour Copy Share Image
I really don't need anyone to come to Mississippi to generate a vote for me. — Mike Espy Copy Share Image
All this piling up of one technology on top of another-railroad on steamboat, interstate highway on railroad, hydroelectric dam on watermill-had reduced… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village. — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
[For American consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the Mississippi River or the long-lost… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
The conditions in the prisons operated by the Mississippi Department of Corrections are absolutely inhumane and unconstitutional. — Yo Gotti Copy Share Image
In the state of Mississippi, Many Years Ago, a boy of 14 years got a taste of Southern law. — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
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