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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

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

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

the sugar plantations on the Mississippi River. — Annie Seaton

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

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

It's already 95 degrees outside. Mississippi got the most unorganized weather in the nation. — Kathryn Stockett

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

All my life, the library has always been one of my favorite places to go. (Larry Brown: A Writer's Life by Jean W. Cash) — Larry Brown

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

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

The sunset was a red slit of light like a devil's eye, hanging low and depraved over the Mississippi River bluff. — Lisa Turner

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

I'm from Dallas. My whole family is based in Texas and Mississippi and Arkansas, spread throughout most of the South. — Jay R. Ferguson

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 rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience. — Elliott Smith

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

Mississippi begins in the lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee, hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico. — William Faulkner

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

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

As the Mississippi snaked and their old home slipped further away, perhaps Samuel had finally left the curse behind. — Andrew Galasetti

I always wanted to grow up fast. I longed for more than the Mississippi Delta could give. — Charley Pride

Soon the Mississippi night hummed by outside his windows, bug, bird, frog, the wind on his face. — Tom Franklin

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

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

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

Are all people from California so rude?" He shrugged. "Not as bad as the bitches from Mississippi."
"Burn. — Teresa Mummert

Time is like the Mississippi River. It only flows in one direction. You can never go back. — Suzanne Woods Fisher

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

This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi. — Amiri Baraka

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

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

JACKSON HAS NEVER stood apart from the rest of Mississippi the way Atlanta has stood apart from Georgia, say, or New Orleans from Louisiana. — Calvin Trillin

Cuddle up. Rain always stops. It always stops. It always does. -The Brown Cape — Ellen Gilchrist

It would appear that the state of Mississippi has decided to maintain white supremacy by murdering children. — Roy Wilkins

My son's an idiot. His teacher asked him to spell Mississippi. He asked which one? The river or the state? — Rodney Dangerfield

I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas. — Pat Buchanan

In the 1920s, Jim Crow Mississippi was, in all facets of society, a kleptocracy. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

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 walked straight to the library. Mrs. Bloom, the librarian, always knows everything. — Augusta Scattergood

I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good. — Kathryn Stockett

I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end. — Eudora Welty

There's America, there's the South, and then there's Mississippi. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Sit on the truth too long and you mash the life right out of it. — Margaret McMullan

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

I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi. — Muddy Waters

In Mississippi the important thing is hooch, not bar equipment. — Florence King

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

The Mississippi looks like diluted mud by day but by night it's again the grand and majestic river of the days of tomahawks and coonskin caps. — Rodney P. Romig

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'm from the Mississippi delta originally. — Little Milton

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

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