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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi. — William Faulkner
Within days they'd formed an unholy alliance with a foppish young French vampire in the Garden District who had implausibly golden hair and a streak… — Deborah Harkness
Death and loss, they plague you. So do memories. Like the Mississippi's incessant slap against the levees, they creep up with deceptive sweetness before grabbing… — Karen White
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 Jackson, Mississippi, people… — Kathryn Stockett
Mississippi is like my mother. I am allowed to complain about her all I want, but God help the person who raises an ill word… — Kathryn Stockett
It's already 95 degrees outside. Mississippi got the most unorganized weather in the nation. — Kathryn Stockett
I'm pretty sure I can say that no one in my family ever asked Demetrie what it felt like to be black in Mississippi, working… — Kathryn Stockett
America is thataway, Mr. Lincoln," laughed Davis, pointing north. "You're in Mississippi now. — Seth Grahame-Smith
If you write a book set in the past about something that happened east of the Mississippi, it's a 'historical novel.' If you write about… — Louis L'Amour
. . .in August in Mississippi there’s a few days somewhere about the middle of the month when suddenly there’s a foretaste of fall, it’s… — William Faulkner
If I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city. — Ruta Sepetys
From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the heightening Alleghenies of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
All students, members of the faculty, and public officials in both Mississippi and the Nation will be able, it is hoped, to return to their… — John F. Kennedy
The biggest part of our business has always been moving things, not paper. With the Internet, people in Mississippi can buy things from Macedonia, without… — Frederick W. Smith
I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs. — B B King
Mark Twain gave us an insight into the life on the Mississippi at the turn of the century. — Bob Newhart
What little family I got is in Mississippi. A whole lot of them died before I left, and my sister died a long time ago,… — Pinetop Perkins
My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father and black mother. — Natasha Trethewey
My name is Natasha Trethewey, and I was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1966, exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi celebrated the first… — Natasha Trethewey
One of two historically African American communities that sprang up along the Mississippi Gulf Coast after emancipation, North Gulfport has always been a place where… — Natasha Trethewey
I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping my… — Natasha Trethewey
Folks have a common misconception that Mississippi is strictly a rural, outdoors state. While we are famous for our hunting, sport fishing and year-round golf,… — Gregg Harper
In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had been thrown off… — Alice Walker
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
I know my destiny. I was born into animosity, bigotry and hatred. We had water for white folks, and water for coloured folks. White lines,… — Joe Frazier

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