Mississippi Quotes
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Mississippi Quotes & Sayings
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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
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
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
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
Wasn't there only one respectable memento of a man worth keeping, the kind that draws Valentines and learns to spell Mississippi?
— Lionel Shriver
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
My rhythm was joined with that of the Mississippi seasons. To change would shift everything inside of me ...
— Carolyn Haines
Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
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
I grew up in Kilmichael, Mississippi. It's a dot on the map 100 miles north of Jackson.
— Grace Hightower
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
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
Mississippi and the world is two different places,' the Deacon say and we all nod cause ain't it the truth.
— Kathryn Stockett
If I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city.
— Ruta Sepetys
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
One loses one's eye in the lanes of sea phosphorescence & the Mississippi of stars streaming across the heavens.
— David Mitchell
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
The only way he could truly stick out in New Orleans was if he were walking down the street on fire.
— Hunter Murphy
I sat there listening to "We Shall Overcome," looking out of the window at the passing Mississippi landscape.
— Anne Moody
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
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 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
But courage was growing in me too. Little by little it was getting harder and harder for me not to speak out.
— Anne Moody
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
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
Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before.
— Catherine Deneuve
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
The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise ...
— Mark Twain
The only thing worse than saying something boring is to quote someone else's boring saying
— Lee Owens
Libraries are about books. Books have no color. And they don't care who reads them.
— Augusta Scattergood
That means if my son was gay, I would want him to suck the best dick this side of the Mississippi.
— Josh Wolf
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
I only write when the spirit moves me ... and the spirit moves me every day. William Faulkner, Oxford, Mississippi
— William Faulkner
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
But the book! The siren song of the book!
— Ellen Douglas
In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
— Lance Bass
I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for?
— Muddy Waters
Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.
— Knute Nelson
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
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
Too thick to drink," as the boatmen used to say about the water of the Mississippi River, "too thin to walk on.
— Paul Schneider
They cried. Yes, yes, they cried. Cried more tears than the Mississippi could hold, but those tears never washed away their faith ...
— Andrew Galasetti
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
Teacher: Why is the Mississippi such an unusual river? Student: Because it has four eyes and can't see! ***
— Various
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 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'm from the Mississippi delta originally.
— Little Milton
I love being so tight on people in close-ups that the veins in their eyes look like the Mississippi River.
— Sylvester Stallone
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
You can't just leave a Mississippi Mud Mountain half-eaten! We leave no cupcake behind!
— Molly Harper
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
Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies.
— Jimmy Buffett