Quotes of: Mississippi Keyword

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

Muddy Waters

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

Paul Robeson

Of course, Mississippi participates in federal matching programs for everything from preserving the post-Civil War home of Jefferson Davis to beaver control.

Ronnie Musgrove

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

Beth Henley

Anderson: Down here they say rattlesnakes don't commit suicide.

Mississippi Burning

Mrs. Pell: If you're ever in Des Moines, don't send me a postcard.

Mississippi Burning

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

Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady

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

Muddy Waters

Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.

Danny Glover

I've been enjoying 'Life on the Mississippi' by Mark Twain that I picked up at the airport randomly. It's very witty and interesting to read about his time as a steamboat pilot.

Roman Coppola

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

I was just a small boy from Mississippi, and now little kids are going to identify with me through this game.

Jerry Rice

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

Jim Harrison

My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston.

Morgan Freeman

Mrs. Pell: You marry the first guy that makes you laugh.

Mississippi Burning

[last lines] Agent Ward: You wanna drive, Rupert? Agent Anderson: Yeah.

Mississippi Burning

Anderson: Did you make a speech like that the night you beat your wife?

Mississippi Burning

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

Coming of Age in Mississippi

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

Oprah Winfrey

The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.

Beth Henley