I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start… — B. B. King 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
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
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
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
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
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
In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had… — Alice Walker 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
Folks have a common misconception that Mississippi is strictly a rural, outdoors state. While we are famous for our hunting, sport fishing… — Gregg Harper Copy Share Image
You can tell this by the program the federal government had to train 2,400 tractor drivers. They would have trained Negro and… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
I am all about breaking barriers and challenging myself, that is why everything I have done on my resume is different. I… — Darius McCrary Copy Share Image
I don't think the folks in the low-tax states really want to go into a fairness discussion. Residents of Connecticut and New… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
There's no real network, and every city in Mississippi is so spread out, so it isn't easy to drive around and pass… — Big K.R.I.T Copy Share Image
“The moon was obscured by heavy clouds. January was already past the mid-mark and the early delta spring would soon be on… — Leslie H. Whitten Jr Copy Share Image
I have been in the witness protection program for the last three weeks. I campaigned for Ralph Nader. I'm now living as… — Phil Donahue Copy Share Image
While I remain troubled by the Corps' inability to fully justify the Model they used for their commercial traffic predictions, America clearly… — Ron Kind Copy Share Image
Finally, the ecological health of the Mississippi River and its economic importance to the many people that make their living or seek… — Ron Kind 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
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
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
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
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
I'm proud of where I come from. A lot of people leave Mississippi, and their claim to fame is somewhere else. But… — Steve McNair 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
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
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
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
“Memphis can be thought of connected as much to Mississippi and Arkansas as it is to Tennessee, if not more so. William… — Tav Falco Copy Share Image
Oh, definitely and I talk about all the things that I really needed to make me happy at that point in time… — Sela Ward 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
Growing up in Mississippi, I was such a farmer, and it's not desirable to bring attention to yourself. That's my nature, and… — Anonymous 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
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
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
We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning. — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
I hear Raleigh's new accounting business isn't doing well. Maybe up in New York or somewhere it's a good thing, but in… — Kathryn Stockett 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
