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
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
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
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
I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on… — Tate Taylor Copy Share Image
Let's look at two things real quickly: the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the Sixties and the Arab Spring starting in… — Bill Ayers 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
New Jersey boasts the highest percentage of passport holders (68%); Delaware (67%), Alaska (65%), Massachusetts (63%), New York (62%), and California (60%)… — Richard Florida 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 get letters every week from people who live in rural Texas or rural Mississippi and who feel totally alone. They feel… — John Shelby Spong 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
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
Even Solon Gregg was finding it hard to speak to a woman who had just paid hard cash for tampons and on… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
The Mississippi, the Ganges, and the Nile,... the Rocky Mountains, the Himmaleh, and Mountains of the Moon, have a kind of personal… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I don't believe there is any constitutional or statutory authority for any president to shut down Mississippi's economy. — Tate Reeves Copy Share Image
The approach I take to legislation a lot of times is that Mississippi has been a state for 198 years, and if… — Tate Reeves Copy Share Image
The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My statue at Ole Miss is a false idol. And it wasn't put there for my benefit. It was put there for… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
Why should I leave Ruleville, and why should I leave Mississippi? I go to the big city, and with the kind of… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
There was really interesting work going on, for example, in the Mississippi bayou, where there were some really exemplary health centers that… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
When I went to Memphis and Mississippi and Nashville, I learnt the blues is a whole way of life. I don't really… — Gin Wigmore Copy Share Image
Im concerned about the cost, just like everybody else. Theres no question that we have an obligation to help the people of… — Saxby Chambliss Copy Share Image
This problem is not only in Mississippi. During the time I was in the Convention in Atlantic City, I didn't get any… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
What would we say if the Chinese sent a gunboat with their marines up the Mississippi River claiming they were protecting their… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we… — Bennie Thompson 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
My favorite figure of the American author is that of a man who breeds a favorite dog, which he throws into the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I'm from a small town on the bottom edge of Mississippi, very near New Orleans and the Louisiana border. My family has… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Each Fall the graves of my grandfathers call me, the brown hills and red gullies of mississippi send out their electric messages,… — Etheridge Knight Copy Share Image
It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
Some people think that [it was] Martin Luther King Jr.'s idea to have a boycott. It was a black woman, a teacher,… — John Lewis 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
“Maybe he was destined to die under the fading shadow of a plastic dinosaur surrounded by pickpockets, hookers, and panhandlers, but at… — Richard Kadrey Copy Share Image
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world; there is a terror in its… — George Catlin Copy Share Image
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