#mississippi

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

— Jerry Rice

#game #going #i #identify #just

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

— Paul Robeson

#go #government #happen #mississippi #people

The gifts of God should be enjoyed by all citizens in Mississippi. ↗

— Medgar Evers

#enjoyed #gifts #god #mississippi #should

Even the most beautiful flower, the rose," he argued, "has the thorn that makes it imperfect. ↗

— Lynetta Halat

#coming-of-age-novel #new-adult-romance #romance #age

Then the light changed the water, until all about them the woods in the rising wind seemed to grow taller and blow inward together and suddenly turn dark. The rain struck heavily. A huge tail seemed to lash through the air and the river broke in a wound of silver. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#mississippi-authors #mississippi-writers #the-wide-net #change

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

— Larry Brown

#family

Lord, Please forgive Robert Johnson. ↗

— Anonymous

#delta #mississippi #music #forgiveness

Barge traffic on the Mississippi River represents the most efficient, most cost-effective, most environmentally sound means of transporting commodity goods from this region of the country to market. ↗

— Leonard Boswell

#cost-effective #country #efficient #environmentally #goods

The case of the Seminoles constitutes at present the only exception to the successful efforts of the Government to remove the Indians to the homes assigned them west of the Mississippi. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#case #constitutes #efforts #exception #government

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

— Muddy Waters

#get #go #i #mississippi #out