Delta Quote by Charley Pride

I'm from the Mississippi delta originally.

— Little Milton

As a teenager growing up during Jim Crow, all I wanted to do was leave Mississippi. But I came back and raised my own…

— Mike Espy

I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age, but I knew.…

— Sam Donaldson

I'd spent summers growing up in Mississippi, so I had an idea of what the South is like.

— Patty Jenkins

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

Growing up in the Delta region was an important part of how I learned to dedicate myself to working hard and gaining the leadership…

— Kay Ivey

When I chose Mississippi State, of course I dreamed about being a big-time college football player. But I'm so grateful that actually became a…

— Dak Prescott

I went to college in Mississippi; I'm from Louisiana.

— Trishelle Cannatella

Back when I was a senior in high school in Haughton, LA, I had a chance to go to LSU. Everyone I grew up…

— Dak Prescott

I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping…

— Natasha Trethewey

I grew up Valley Stream until my parents moved to Florida when I was 20. I graduated from Valley Stream Central High School in…

— Jim Breuer

I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a vacation cabin or something there…

— William Gibson