#mississippi

Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana. ↗

— Robert Plant

#american #american music #americana #blues #chicago

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

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

— Shepard Smith

#elite #example #for example #i #just

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

— Medgar Evers

#enjoyed #gifts #god #mississippi #should

The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world; there is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi. ↗

— George Catlin

#character #different #enter #felt #manner

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

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

— Jim Harrison

#genuine #i #i see #michigan #mississippi