#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 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

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

— Muddy Waters

#did #down #house #i #i think

My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call 'Little House on the Prairie' tales, but they were tales of segregated and racist America growing up in Alabama and Mississippi, where she came from. ↗

— David Alan Grier

#america #born #call #came #grandmother

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

Almost 70 percent of U.S. ag exports travel the upper Mississippi River and the Illinois waterway system. ↗

— Jerry Costello

#exports #illinois #mississippi #mississippi river #percent

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

We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#education #executions #first #funding #mississippi

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

— Jill Conner Browne

#mississippi #humor

For the rest of the afternoon, Miss Bloom smiled almost as bright as the big yellow sun shining through the front picture window. Her library was filled up with people who loved books. ↗

— Augusta Scattergood

#civil-rights-movement #happiness #libraries #mississippi-authors #love