#mississippi

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

— Jim Harrison

#genuine #i #i see #michigan #mississippi

This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi. ↗

— Amiri Baraka

#counterfeit #even #flag #legalized #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

#had #his #james #life #meredith

They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out different artists for them. ↗

— Ike Turner

#artists #come #different #down #find

Stay fit and live long and prosper, but write your own obituary now, while you can, just in case. ↗

— Jill Conner Browne

#mississippi #humor

Harris loved to read and he shared everything he read. He read to whoever happened to be in the room from whatever paper he happened to be making his way through. Ann Landers and the horoscope, of course, headlines, cartoons, Miss Manners, Heloise, the lives of others, in many forms, long articles on astronomy or anthropology, political pieces, op-ed pieces, book reviews, church bazaars, executions, plane crashes, disco artists, whatever caught his interest. ↗

— Lewis Nordan

#love

It may sound funny, but I love the South. I don't choose to live anywhere else. There's land here, where a man can raise cattle, and I'm going to do that someday. There are lakes where a man can sink a hook and fight bass. There is room here for my children to play, and grow, and become good citizens... ↗

— Myrlie Evers-Williams

#mississippi-authors #love

Humans are aware of very little, it seems to me, the artificial brainy side of life, the worries and bills and the mechanisms of jobs, the doltish psychologies we've placed over our lives like a stencil. A dog keeps his life simple and unadorned. ↗

— Brad Watson

#mississippi #short-story #men

In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#already #away #borders #closer #conquest