Mississippi-authors Quote by Elizabeth Spencer

“It's so nice to be around a man who isn't hung up about his car," she said. "Mom, I can't believe you're saying that.…

— Martin Hegwood

“Cuddle up. Rain always stops. It always stops. It always does. -The Brown Cape”

— Ellen Gilchrist

“Christophe peeled the shrimp slowly and carefully: that was his way around her, and it was the exact opposite of his usual demeanor. She…

— Jesmyn Ward

“Love don't just go away like that, Cille," Sandman said. "It do.”

— Jesmyn Ward

“People hear whispers as loud as guns.”

— Elizabeth Spencer

“She wore heavy sandals, with socks. No kid in the entire state of Mississippi wore black socks in the summer. Shoot, if I wasn't…

— Augusta Scattergood

“She was always saying things like that but I let her be my best friend anyway.”

— Ellen Gilchrist

“We know You love us. We love You, too. I mean, six, seven thousand years from now . . . won't make no difference,…

— Larry Brown

“It may sound funny, but I love the South. I don't choose to live anywhere else. There's land here, where a man can raise…

— Myrlie Evers-Williams

“I told him. We got a library here. Got plenty of good books, too. -Larry Brown, Dirty Work”

— Larry Brown

“I had never read a book written by an African-American. I didn't know that black people could write books. I didn't know that blacks…

— Endesha Ida Mae Holland

“But the book! The siren song of the book!”

— Ellen Douglas