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
The attorney general would call at 5 o'clock in the evening and say: 'Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate… — Harold H. Greene Copy Share Image
Finally, in the Mississippi state Senate, earmarks are often hidden in bond bills, which I have voted against many times, because our… — Chris McDaniel Copy Share Image
As for my state of Mississippi, our governor, Phil Bryant, said the state could not afford the matching funds required to trigger… — Ronnie Musgrove Copy Share Image
My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my father, a… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
While St. Louis is technically regarded as part of the Mid-West, it's actually - geographically and emotionally - more part of the… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
When we have a favorite writer, it's always the places where they grew up, lived, worked, and that they recreated on the… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
My mother was from Mississippi, or is from 'Mississippi;' my father was from Alabama. He speaks about conditions in Mississippi and Alabama.… — Faye Wattleton 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
“The Lamar Life stationary carried on its letterhead an oval portrait of Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, for whom the Company had been… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I know my destiny. I was born into animosity, bigotry and hatred. We had water for white folks, and water for coloured… — Joe Frazier Copy Share Image
Grief is just so scary… If we finally begin to cry all those suppressed tears, they will surely wash us away like… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
As founder and co-chair of the upper Mississippi River Congressional task force, I have long sought to preserve the river's health and… — Ron Kind Copy Share Image
One of two historically African American communities that sprang up along the Mississippi Gulf Coast after emancipation, North Gulfport has always been… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
A carriage will start from Washington in the morning, the passengers will breakfast at Baltimore, dine at Philadelphia, and sup in New… — Oliver Evans Copy Share Image
Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina.… — Steve Harvey Copy Share Image
One of the things I remember as a child: There was a man named Joe Pulliam. He was a great Christian man;… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
When I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early 20s, it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
After we testified before the Credentials Committee in Atlantic City, their Mississippi representative testified also. He said I got 600 votes but… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
In several sections, both natural in the banks of the Mississippi and its numerous arms, and where artificial canals had been cut,… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
After Blood Simple, everybody thought I was from Texas. After Mississippi Burning, everybody thought I was from Mississippi and uneducated. After Fargo,… — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
Nothing rekindles my spirits, gives comfort to my heart and mind, more than a visit to Mississippi... and to be regaled as… — Craig Claiborne Copy Share Image
I am thankful for the strong, united response of our university community to the desecration of the James Meredith statue last year,… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
In coming to Atlantic City, we believed strongly that we were right. In fact, it was just right for us to come… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
The other great innovation are things like Transparent or One Mississippi on Amazon, Master of None on Netflix, and those half-hours. It's… — Tom Riley Copy Share Image
The Mississippi River towns are comely, clean, well built, and pleasing to the eye, and cheering to the spirit. The Mississippi Valley… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
