#mississippi

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

— Medgar Evers

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Then the light changed the water, until all about them the woods in the rising wind seemed to grow taller and blow inward together and suddenly turn dark. The rain struck heavily. A huge tail seemed to lash through the air and the river broke in a wound of silver. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#mississippi-authors #mississippi-writers #the-wide-net #change

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

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The boy didn't know where he and his family were, other than one name: Mississippi. ↗

— Larry Brown

#family

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

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

— Muddy Waters

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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

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

— Muddy Waters

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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

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

— Jim Harrison

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