1.
I am determined to get every Negro in the state of Mississippi registered.
Fannie Lou Hamer
3.
Courage isn't something you are born with. It comes to you with experience.
Patricia Neal
4.
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
5.
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
6.
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
9.
I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience.
Elliott Smith
10.
I'm a black writer from Mississippi. That's what I most consider myself.
Kiese Laymon
11.
In Mississippi, you don’t admit that you’re gay. It’s just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
Lance Bass
13.
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
14.
I always enjoy myself fighting in Mississippi. I enjoy myself fighting anywhere.
Larry Holmes
15.
It's already 95 degrees outside. Mississippi got the most unorganized weather in the nation.
Kathryn Stockett
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America is thataway, Mr. Lincoln," laughed Davis, pointing north. "You're in Mississippi now.
Seth Grahame-Smith