Mississippi Quotes

I am determined to get every Negro in the state of Mississippi registered.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I'm from the Mississippi delta originally.

Nothing could stop Mississippi.

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

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

History - a vast Mississippi of falsehoods

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.

I always enjoy myself fighting in Mississippi. I enjoy myself fighting anywhere.

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

America is thataway, Mr. Lincoln," laughed Davis, pointing north. "You're in Mississippi now.

I'm a black writer from Mississippi. That's what I most consider myself.