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
To watch your home change in front of you is surprising. But at the same time, going someplace like Mississippi, makes me… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
The one thing I have wanted to stay away from is the steroids. When I had an attack two years ago in… — Mary Ann Mobley Copy Share Image
What are we going to say if tomorrow it occurs to some African state to send its agents into Mississippi and to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I think about growing up, I feel most affected by two travels that I made working in cargo boats when I… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
In talking about the [Emmett Till murder trial], you have to repeat the atmosphere. This is Mississippi in 1955, with a long… — Charles Diggs Copy Share Image
The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are… — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
My mom's collard greens. No one else in the world can make them like hers. I'm not just saying that because she's… — Santigold Copy Share Image
My home office and workshop are on an overlook on the only deep river gorge on the entire length of the Mississippi… — William Gurstelle Copy Share Image
“Drilling without thinking has of course been Republican party policy since May 2008. With gas prices soaring to unprecedented heights, that's when… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
I'm the only candidate running for governor that opposes Obamacare expansion in Mississippi. — Tate Reeves 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
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
I decided early on that I wanted to participate in the greater American experience, rather than the parochial one in Mississippi. But… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“Winter came in days that were gray and still. They were the kind of days in which people locked in their animals… — Mildred D. Taylor Copy Share Image
“Sir Walter Scott created rank & caste in the South and also reverence for and pride and pleasure in them. Life on… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I'd spent summers growing up in Mississippi, so I had an idea of what the South is like. — Patty Jenkins 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 rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience. — Elliott Smith Copy Share Image
My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call 'Little House on the Prairie' tales, but… — David Alan Grier Copy Share Image
While the level of support we can each provide certainly varies, it is very important at this time that we all do… — Jo Bonner Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, I saw a side of humanity I wish I'd remained blissfully ignorant of, including one driver who threw a bottle at… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The Mississippi and its paddle boats, and the rivers of Bengal and their gleaming steamers evoked a similar atmosphere of romance, of… — Qurratulain Hyder Copy Share Image
It is a great honor to serve Mississippi as its first female United States Senator. — Cindy Hyde-Smith Copy Share Image
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