Whether in public office or right here at home, I will never stop fighting for Mississippi. From the Delta to East Mississippi… — Mike Espy 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
We've got to replace the statues of Jefferson Davis and JZ George in the U.S. Capitol, and the people of Mississippi ought… — Mike Espy Copy Share Image
Mississippi is an imperfect state, and I can predict with certainty that I will reflect that imperfection. Mississippians also strive for excellence,… — Tate Reeves Copy Share Image
What little family I got is in Mississippi. A whole lot of them died before I left, and my sister died a… — Pinetop Perkins Copy Share Image
In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new… — Carl Clinton Van Doren 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
“Roy Dale suspected that Mississippi was beautiful. He wasn't sure. He didn't have anything to compare it to. He hadn't even ever… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
There's a potter that lived back in the 1800s, in Biloxi, Mississippi, and his name was George Ohr. He was of Russian… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
It is only when we speak what is right that we stand a chance at night of being blown to bits in… — Fannie Lou Hamer 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
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
“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
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
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
I live by the sea, but the body of water I have the most feeling about is the Mississippi River, where I… — Susan Glaspell 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 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
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
Demetrie came to wait on my grandmother in 1955 and stayed for 32 years. It was common, in Mississippi, to have a… — Kathryn Stockett 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
