#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

#down #exactly #felt #i #just

That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through. ↗

— Muddy Waters

#hear #mississippi #old #records #sound

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

#almost #becoming #education #freedom #graduated

The attorney general would call at 5 o'clock in the evening and say: 'Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi. Get us a memo on what we're likely to do, and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there.' ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#attorney general #call #clock #evening #general

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

— Beth Henley

#grew #i #jackson #mississippi #mother

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

#alone #christmas #class #dime #i

While the level of support we can each provide certainly varies, it is very important at this time that we all do what we can to help our neighbors - not only our immediate neighbors here in Alabama, but those further away in Mississippi and Louisiana. ↗

— Jo Bonner

#away #certainly #each #further #help

Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#could #elvis #hippies #hips #his

I'm concerned about the cost, just like everybody else. There's no question that we have an obligation to help the people of Louisiana and Mississippi to rebuild. ↗

— Saxby Chambliss

#concerned #cost #else #everybody #everybody else

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

#charleston #first #first thing #hospital #i