#sissi

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

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#comment #less #little #look #mississippi

The internet is not for sissies. ↗

— Paul Vixie

#internet #sissies

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

#down #exactly #felt #i #just

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

— Muddy Waters

#hear #mississippi #old #records #sound

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#beyond #books #conquer #discovered #farm

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

#almost #becoming #education #freedom #graduated

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

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