I did not believe what I was told about being poor and black and female in Mississippi in 1954. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I know lots of people in Mississippi who have lost their jobs trying to register to vote. — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
I'm the only candidate running for governor that opposes Obamacare expansion in Mississippi. — Tate Reeves Copy Share Image
Courage isn't something you are born with. It comes to you with experience. — Patricia Neal Copy Share Image
Mark Twain gave us an insight into the life on the Mississippi at the turn of the century. — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
There is no doubt in my mind that we need to spend more money on roads and bridges in Mississippi. — Tate Reeves Copy Share Image
I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
“The sky had cleared, and now the sun was overhead, already baking the wet ground so that you could see the humidity… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“Unquestionably the discovery of the Mississippi is a datable fact which considerably mellows and modifies the shiny newness of our country, and… — Mark Twain 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
My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
With us, when you speak of ‘the river,’ though there be many, you mean always the same one, the great river, the… — William Alexander Percy Copy Share Image
For the good of our environment, the good of the economy, and the good of the Nation, I strongly urge support of… — Leonard Boswell Copy Share Image
The case of the Seminoles constitutes at present the only exception to the successful efforts of the Government to remove the Indians… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
Water seeks its own level. Look at them. The Tigris, the Euphrates, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Yangtze. The world's great rivers.… — Alison McGhee 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
I grew up in Mississippi, and there's no fashion game there. Even in 'Bling Ring,' I had to learn a lot about… — Israel Broussard Copy Share Image
“Mr. Raney named the porpoises - Sister Woman, and Renford, and Lamar, and St. Elmo - and could recognize them, and call… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
“Then the light changed the water, until all about them the woods in the rising wind seemed to grow taller and blow… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Like a majority of Americans in recent years, I came to understand that fear of homosexuality was leading our governments - including… — Ronnie Musgrove Copy Share Image
I am fascinated by the places that music comes from, like fife-and-drum blues from southern Mississippi or Cajun music out of Lafayette,… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
The major concern ...was to create a monument which would have lasting significance and would be a landmark of our time... Neither… — Eero Saarinen Copy Share Image
Usually we look at it like, "Oh, black people couldn't vote in Mississippi because they had to take a literacy test." But… — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
“In a little while they were kissing. In a little while longer, they made their slow sweet love. The iron bed sounded… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
If we want to understand the actions of a man in the early 1860's, put yourself back there in his shoes. As… — Hal Holbrook 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
I used to come out here every Fourth of July as a child to picnic and to swim on the island, to… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
For example, John Law's Mississippi Company venture printed shares, and the money had gone up in smoke when it had been inscribed… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
From earliest times, water has always been acknowledged as a primary human good and an indispensable natural resource. Around the great rivers… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“In the 1920s, Jim Crow Mississippi was, in all facets of society, a kleptocracy. The majority of the people in the state… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My maternal grandmother was a star on her high school basketball team in small-town Mississippi. — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
I really don't need anyone to come to Mississippi to generate a vote for me. — Mike Espy Copy Share Image
If I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city. — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
I grew up in Mississippi. I was there for 13 years, and then when I turned 13, I moved out to L.A. — Israel Broussard Copy Share Image
“In the 1920s, Jim Crow Mississippi was, in all facets of society, a kleptocracy.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“My rhythm was joined with that of the Mississippi seasons. To change would shift everything inside of me...” — Carolyn Haines Copy Share Image
“Mississippi begins in the lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee, hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
