Mississippi Quotes

That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through. — Muddy Waters

If I was an exceptional human being in Detroit, then I saw no reason why I couldn't be an exceptional human being in Mississippi. In Hattiesburg. — Victoria Gray Adams

Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white. — Constance Baker Motley

The presiding judge ruled that a black person must surely be insane to think that he could be admitted to the University of Mississippi. — Yuval Noah Harari

Nothing could stop Mississippi. — Gwendolyn Brooks

I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays. — Beth Henley

I'm not a liberal elite who was educated in the northeast, for example, I'm just a kid from Mississippi. — Shepard Smith

It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud. — James Kavanaugh

The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.' — Kinky Friedman

I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question. — Jim Harrison

Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there. — Muddy Waters

For a black student to work in southwest Mississippi for example - or in the Delta in 1960, 1961, 1962 - was high-risk work. — John Doar

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

In the state of Mississippi, Many Years Ago, a boy of 14 years got a taste of Southern law. — Phil Ochs

I'm a country guy from Mississippi who keeps it simple. — Steve McNair

This river is so old. When the Nephilim walked the land and men were like grasshoppers at their feet, it was flashing as thin and quick as a minnow. — Kristopher Reisz

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right. — Maya Angelou

Between 1882 and 1968, more black people were lynched in MIssissippi than in any other state. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Almost 70 percent of U.S. ag exports travel the upper Mississippi River and the Illinois waterway system. — Jerry Costello

Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm. — Ernie Harwell

Mississippi gets more than their fair share back in federal money, but who the hell wants to live in Mississippi? — Charles Rangel

Stay fit and live long and prosper, but write your own obituary now, while you can, just in case. — Jill Conner Browne

The distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi. — Mort Sahl

I've always been fascinated by the Mississippi River and the way of life in these small river towns. — Daniel Woodrell

The morning sun in New Orleans felt like it was trying to make a point, convincing the old world to believe something new. — Hunter Murphy

On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence. — Matthew Arnold

Damn, I'm Miss Mississippi! — Fannie Flagg

Andrew Jackson was the implementer of the final solution for the Indigenous peoples east of the Mississippi. Andrew — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

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

The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead! — Stokely Carmichael

Even the most beautiful flower, the rose," he argued, "has the thorn that makes it imperfect. — Lynetta Halat

I am determined to get every Negro in the state of Mississippi registered. — Fannie Lou Hamer

Mark Twain gave us an insight into the life on the Mississippi at the turn of the century. — Bob Newhart

Courage isn't something you are born with. It comes to you with experience. — Patricia Neal

When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was. — Oprah Winfrey

I have been in the witness protection program for the last three weeks. I campaigned for Ralph Nader. I'm now living as a woman in Mississippi. — Phil Donahue

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

In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad. — Lance Bass

But the book! The siren song of the book! — Ellen Douglas

Kennedy's guy had never been the same. Quit the Service, divorced, finished his human existence in obscurity in some rat's hole in Mississippi, — David Baldacci

I only write when the spirit moves me ... and the spirit moves me every day. William Faulkner, Oxford, Mississippi — William Faulkner

I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did. — B.B. King

Old black water, keep on rollin'
Mississippi moon won't you keep on shinin' on me? — Patrick Simmons

That means if my son was gay, I would want him to suck the best dick this side of the Mississippi. — Josh Wolf

She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches. — Sarah Addison Allen

The only thing worse than saying something boring is to quote someone else's boring saying — Lee Owens

The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise ... — Mark Twain

My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father and black mother. — Natasha Trethewey

Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before. — Catherine Deneuve

J.W. and Roy didn't just snatch the childhood away from Emmett; they stole it from every single black child in Mississippi. — Bernice L. McFadden

When you're from Weir, Mississippi, almost everywhere you go looks like the big city. — Roy Oswalt

As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it. — Willie Morris

But courage was growing in me too. Little by little it was getting harder and harder for me not to speak out. — Anne Moody

The Mississippi coast is not like south Florida, but it always seems warm enough for sandals and short-sleeved shirts, except for now and then. — Ellen Gilchrist

Libraries are about books. Books have no color. And they don't care who reads them. — Augusta Scattergood

Later they took him to Jackson and that explained it; he was crazy. — Shelby Foote

This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen. — Paul Robeson

Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies. — Jimmy Buffett

The boy didn't know where he and his family were, other than one name: Mississippi. — Larry Brown

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

You can't just leave a Mississippi Mud Mountain half-eaten! We leave no cupcake behind! — Molly Harper

I grew up in Mississippi. I was there for 13 years, and then when I turned 13, I moved out to L.A. — Israel Broussard

I love being so tight on people in close-ups that the veins in their eyes look like the Mississippi River. — Sylvester Stallone

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi. — Knute Nelson

I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs. — B.B. King

I was raised in Mississippi, so heat and humidity is my bread and butter. It keeps me going. I can't stand cold weather. — Morgan Freeman

A beauty beyond words," whispered Rini, mesmerized by the view. — Jason Medina

Teacher: Why is the Mississippi such an unusual river? Student: Because it has four eyes and can't see! *** — Various

Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious need of repair and rehabilitation. — Ron Kind

They cried. Yes, yes, they cried. Cried more tears than the Mississippi could hold, but those tears never washed away their faith ... — Andrew Galasetti

Too thick to drink," as the boatmen used to say about the water of the Mississippi River, "too thin to walk on. — Paul Schneider

What would we say if the Chinese sent a gunboat with their marines up the Mississippi River claiming they were protecting their laundries in Memphis? — Will Rogers

We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning. — Kinky Friedman

I'm from the Mississippi delta originally. — Little Milton

A great symphony is a man-made Mississippi down which we irresistibly flow from the instant of our leave-taking to a long forseen destination. — Aaron Copland

I went to college in Mississippi; I'm from Louisiana. — Trishelle Cannatella

America is thataway, Mr. Lincoln," laughed Davis, pointing north. "You're in Mississippi now. — Seth Grahame-Smith

Had Nietzsche lived to be burned at the stake by outraged Mississippi Methodists, it would have been a glorious day for his doctrines. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A hot city, slaked out on the banks of the Mississippi, with too much of its muscle showing to be a dignified city. — Richard Jessup

The gifts of God should be enjoyed by all citizens in Mississippi. — Medgar Evers

If I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city. — Ruta Sepetys

You can take the girl out of Mississippi but you can't take the Mississippi out of the girl. — Kristi Cook

Books, the books that I loved above all else to spend my time with, were the great tools for understanding one's life and the lives of other people. — Ellen Douglas

I sat there listening to "We Shall Overcome," looking out of the window at the passing Mississippi landscape. — Anne Moody

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

Growing up in Mississippi, I realized that it was separate and unequal and all that, but it was still a safe place. — Morgan Freeman

This is not the party of Reagan. Today the conservative movement took a backseat to liberal Democrats in the state of Mississippi. — Chris McDaniel

Mississippi and the world is two different places,' the Deacon say and we all nod cause ain't it the truth. — Kathryn Stockett

She was always saying things like that but I let her be my best friend anyway. — Ellen Gilchrist

Love don't just go away like that, Cille," Sandman said.
"It do. — Jesmyn Ward

The only way he could truly stick out in New Orleans was if he were walking down the street on fire. — Hunter Murphy

One loses one's eye in the lanes of sea phosphorescence & the Mississippi of stars streaming across the heavens. — David Mitchell

The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he was a typist. — Seth Godin

To each other, they talked at a gallop. Literature turned them on; their ideas flowed, ran back and forth like a current. (The Cousins) — Elizabeth Spencer

If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see race.' Biggest lie ever told. — Bennie Thompson

Richard Wright, a Mississippi-born negro, has written a blinding and corrosive study in hate. It is a novel entitled "Native Son". — David L. Cohn

I grew up in Kilmichael, Mississippi. It's a dot on the map 100 miles north of Jackson. — Grace Hightower

Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk. — F Scott Fitzgerald

My rhythm was joined with that of the Mississippi seasons. To change would shift everything inside of me ... — Carolyn Haines

Wasn't there only one respectable memento of a man worth keeping, the kind that draws Valentines and learns to spell Mississippi? — Lionel Shriver