Different Quote by Viola Davis

“Southerners have a lot to be proud of. We have survived, and we have overcome. Southern women, especially, have learned to be proud of…

— Deborah Ford

“Things have come a long way in Mississippi. That’s the usual shorthand. Perhaps nowhere else in America has made more progress in its race…

— Richard Grant

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 decided early on that I wanted to participate in the greater American experience, rather than the parochial one in Mississippi. But I have…

— Richard Ford

I'm not going to lay down in words the lure of this place. Every great writer in the land, from Faulkner to Twain to…

— Chris Rose

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

— Patty Jenkins

Everyone thinks because you're from the south you know everyone down there, but it's not like that; I never knew nothing about no Mississippi.

— Buddy Guy

History - a vast Mississippi of falsehoods

— Matthew Arnold

Living in Montgomery, I've been antagonized by the emergence of a narrative about our history that I believe is quite false and misleading, and…

— Bryan Stevenson

“Mississippi used to be able to do whatever it wanted to do, until the United States found out about it. And now that Mississippi…

— John Pritchard

“And honestly, after all those images on the six o’clock news of the horrible things going on in Alabama and Mississippi, I wanted Paris…

— Susan Gabriel

“South Carolina has a much more enlightened attitude toward colored advancement than the rest of the south.”

— Colson Whitehead