Quote by James Meredith

There are a million Negroes in Mississippi. I think they'll take care of me.

— James Meredith

I am determined to get every Negro in the state of Mississippi registered.

— Fannie Lou Hamer

There are more Negroes in jail with me than there are on the voting rolls.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I was born in a Negro town.

— Zora Neale Hurston

Now, just a word about the poor Negroes... They're here. They've got to be cared for... The poor Negroes have got to live, too.

— Huey Long

I don't think of myself as a Negro. I'm a Southerner. I just like the Southern way of life.

— Julian Bond

I'm a black writer from Mississippi. That's what I most consider myself.

— Kiese Laymon

The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem…

— Booker T. Washington

I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1969, in a time and place where no one was saying, Look how far weve come, because…

— Kathryn Stockett

I did not believe what I was told about being poor and black and female in Mississippi in 1954.

— Oprah Winfrey

I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.

— Nat King Cole

But I dig Negroes. I dig them all the way.

— Jonathan Safran Foer