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This collection holds 256 mississippi quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Little Milton, Matthew Arnold and Trishelle Cannatella.

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I'm from the Mississippi delta originally.

History - a vast Mississippi of falsehoods

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

The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.'

I am from Brookhaven, a small town in Southwest Mississippi.

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

I grew up by the Mississippi River, and I would swim in that as a kid.

In Mississippi, black and white live cheek by jowl, day in and day out.

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

I am determined to get every Negro in the state of Mississippi registered.

Courage isn't something you are born with. It comes to you with experience.

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

I always enjoy myself fighting in Mississippi. I enjoy myself fighting anywhere.

My father is from Mississippi, and I heard stories of racial injustice my whole life.

I grew up in Kilmichael, Mississippi. It's a dot on the map 100 miles north of Jackson.

I'd spent summers growing up in Mississippi, so I had an idea of what the South is like.

My dad is in Mississippi. He exited the Navy and made a ton of money as an entrepreneur.

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

Mark Twain gave us an insight into the life on the Mississippi at the turn of the century.

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

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

My maternal grandmother was a star on her high school basketball team in small-town Mississippi.

I once paddled a canoe the length of the Mississippi River all the way from Itasca to New Orleans.

I grew up in Mississippi. I was there for 13 years, and then when I turned 13, I moved out to L.A.

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

I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village.

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

I've always been fascinated by the Mississippi River and the way of life in these small river towns.

In Mississippi, you don’t admit that you’re gay. It’s just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.

I'm not a liberal elite who was educated in the northeast, for example, I'm just a kid from Mississippi.

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

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

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

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.

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

I've always loved gospel music. Being raised in Mississippi, it was kind of part of the atmosphere down there.

The funny response to 'One Mississippi' continues to be that people don't know what is true and what's fiction.

Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.

I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

I'm from Dallas. My whole family is based in Texas and Mississippi and Arkansas, spread throughout most of the South.

I'm also a blues musician, and all blues artists can trace their pain to the slavery fields of the Mississippi Delta.

The turkey oak can grow practically submerged within the wetlands of Mississippi, its leaves soft as a newborn's skin.

I got to know Peyton Manning when he was a high school junior and I was the offensive coordinator at Mississippi State.

It was a culture shock at first, moving from Michigan to Mississippi. But it ended up being the best decision I ever made.

For a black student to work in southwest Mississippi for example - or in the Delta in 1960, 1961, 1962 - was high-risk work.

Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.

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

My statue at Ole Miss is a false idol. And it wasn't put there for my benefit. It was put there for Ole Miss and Mississippi.

I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did.

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