Appreciate Quote by Jacqueline Woodson

As I grew older I began to realize that Mississippi really wasn't that bad. The basis for progress has always been there. And the…

— Mike Espy

I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for?

— Muddy Waters

I know well the delectable thrill of moving into a new house somewhere altogether else, in somebody else’s county, where the climate is different,…

— Jan Morris

I grew up in Mississippi being told it was a great place, but not feeling that. When I finally began reading seriously, literature showed…

— Richard Ford

It always just feels good going back home. It feels like nothing has changed. Seeing my room, the views. It, like, grounds you.

— Joan Smalls

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

Oh, definitely and I talk about all the things that I really needed to make me happy at that point in time were outside…

— Sela Ward

We want you to visit our State of Excitement often. Come again and again. But for heaven's sake, don't move here to live. Or…

— Tom McCall

I grew up really close to Alabama, about 10 minutes from the Alabama line. We'd make trips to Alabama, and I feel at home there.

— Sam Hunt

I loved Mississippi and do to this day. The rainbows that stretch from horizon to horizon after a summer rain are the most spectacular…

— Charley Pride

When you live far away, home looks a little different every time.

— Gideon Raff

I'll never forget where I came from, and that my home is forever Sweet Home Alabama!

— Paul Bearer