Authors-note Quote by Kristi Cook

A lot of people I guess, well, some people change when they get in spotlights and everything, but you can take the girl out…

— La'Porsha Renae

My mother was from Mississippi, or is from 'Mississippi;' my father was from Alabama. He speaks about conditions in Mississippi and Alabama. They were…

— Faye Wattleton

“I already told you, I'm not gonna subscribe to your stupid magazine!' she yells. 'We're not selling anything,' Jake calls back. 'We just came…

— Hannah Harrington

“An important note about Roxannah's background. In my conversation with Dr. Jessica Sanderson (please see Author Acknowledgements), what became obvious to me was that…

— Tessa Afshar

“Editing is a kind of creative activity where, in a perfect world, an author and an editor find that elusive oneness to understand each…

— Sahara Sanders

“But this is where fact and fiction diverge, because Cecily and Zimmy did have a child, a son, Jeremy, who is my father. Cecily…

— Vicky Zimmerman

“Maybe we won't have the beauty of a perfect summer. But neither do we have to endure the callousness of an uncaring winter. Instead,…

— Jody Hedlund

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“The only thing worse than saying something boring is to quote someone else's boring saying”

— Lee Owens

Barge traffic on the Mississippi River represents the most efficient, most cost-effective, most environmentally sound means of transporting commodity goods from this region of…

— Leonard Boswell

Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues…

— Robert Plant

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

— Kathryn Stockett

I mean a real police state just to get a token recognition of a law. It take, it took, I think, 15,000 troops and…

— Malcolm X

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

— William Faulkner

“Maybe he was destined to die under the fading shadow of a plastic dinosaur surrounded by pickpockets, hookers, and panhandlers, but at least he’d…

— Richard Kadrey