Mississippi famous quotes

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

#Thinking #Mississippi

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

#White #Risk #Mississippi

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

#Parades #Mississippi

Nothing could stop Mississippi.
-- Gwendolyn Brooks

#Mississippi

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

#Weather #Degrees #Mississippi

I'm from the Mississippi delta originally.
-- Little Milton

#Delta #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.
-- Muddy Waters

#Singing #Way #Mississippi

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

#Book #Reading #Mississippi

Here's to the State of Mississippi,
-- Phil Ochs

#States #Mississippi

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

#America #Mississippi #Pointing

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

#College #Louisiana #Mississippi

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

#Black #Mississippi