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Mississippi Quotes

I went to college in Mississippi; I’m from Louisiana Picture Quote #1

It’s already 95 degrees outside. Mississippi got the most unorganized weather in the nation Picture Quote #1

Old black water, keep on rollin’ Mississippi moon won’t you keep on shinin’ on me? Picture Quote #1

I feel like I can be myself in L.A. I feel like Mississippi is a little close-minded; not all of Mississippi is, but just the part that I came from. They really don’t get outsiders Picture Quote #1

Of course, Mississippi participates in federal matching programs for everything from preserving the post-Civil War home of Jefferson Davis to beaver control Picture Quote #1

I never thought I’d see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we was in Mississippi Picture Quote #1

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We must educate and train our children to compete and succeed in the 21st century. Our kids are not going to grow up to compete with children in Alabama or Mississippi. They’re going to grow up to compete with kids in India, and China, all over the world; children who are learning to compete and succeed in the 21st century themselves Picture Quote #1

The issue of equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals has vexed politicians for decades. I have my own cloudy history with the issue, having supported a law in Mississippi that made it illegal for LGBT couples to adopt children. I believed at the time this was a principled position based on my faith Picture Quote #1

My own experience with trains dates to long-ago childhood trips with my family in Mississippi to see my grandmother off at the station in Jackson, bound for Memphis Picture Quote #1

I know my destiny. I was born into animosity, bigotry and hatred. We had water for white folks, and water for coloured folks. White lines, black lines. I came from Beaufort in South Carolina, and it was tougher than Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi Picture Quote #1

One of two historically African American communities that sprang up along the Mississippi Gulf Coast after emancipation, North Gulfport has always been a place where residents have had fewer civic resources than those extended to other outlying communities Picture Quote #1

My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father and black mother Picture Quote #1

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When you’re from Weir, Mississippi, almost everywhere you go looks like the big city Picture Quote #1

I love being so tight on people in close-ups that the veins in their eyes look like the Mississippi River Picture Quote #1

What little family I got is in Mississippi. A whole lot of them died before I left, and my sister died a long time ago, before my mama did Picture Quote #1

My mother was from Mississippi, or is from ‘Mississippi;’ my father was from Alabama. He speaks about conditions in Mississippi and Alabama. They were really the poster children for the bad public laws that segregated, according to race, in our country Picture Quote #1

My name is Natasha Trethewey, and I was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1966, exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi celebrated the first Confederate Memorial Day, April 26, 1866 Picture Quote #1

When I went to Memphis and Mississippi and Nashville, I learnt the blues is a whole way of life. I don’t really have the blues, but I can appreciate the honesty and the simplicity of it Picture Quote #1

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Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi Picture Quote #1

Finally, the ecological health of the Mississippi River and its economic importance to the many people that make their living or seek their recreation is based on a healthy river system Picture Quote #1

I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs Picture Quote #1

When I made ‘Who Needs Pictures,’ my first album, I had been west of the Mississippi River one time in my life, and that was in fourth grade. We traveled to California for vacation and stayed with some friends of my parents. It was culture shock, and it was different Picture Quote #1

The literacy level at Mississippi prisons? Fifth grade. Can’t read, what are you going to do? If you’ve got a conviction rap, what are you going to do? It’s a real crisis Picture Quote #1

I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping my experience of the world. I had to go to the Northeast for graduate school because I felt like I had to get far away from my South, be outside it, to understand it Picture Quote #1

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I was in elementary school in Mississippi, and when Katrina hit, my mom put me in home school. So ever since sixth grade, I’ve been home schooled, which was interesting Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

For the good of our environment, the good of the economy, and the good of the Nation, I strongly urge support of the upper Mississippi locks and dams project Picture Quote #1

I grew up very differently than a lot of other people in my hometown in Mississippi. But I can’t imagine my life any other way. I flew home and surprised my best friend at his graduation, and I remember turning to my mom and saying, ‘My graduation was so much cooler than this.’ I had Melissa Joan Hart give my commencement speech Picture Quote #1

If you write a book about a bygone period that lies east of the Mississippi River, then it’s a historical novel. If it’s west of the Mississippi, it’s a western, a different category. There’s no sense to it Picture Quote #1

When I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early 20s, it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like my parents, who had been thrown off the land they’d always known - the plantations - because they attempted to exercise their ‘democratic’ right to vote Picture Quote #1

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I went to college in Mississippi; I’m from Louisiana (Mississippi Quotes) It’s already 95 degrees outside. Mississippi got the most unorganized weather in the nation (Mississippi Quotes) Old black water, keep on rollin’ Mississippi moon won’t you keep on shinin’ on me? (Mississippi Quotes) I feel like I can be myself in L.A. I feel like Mississippi is a little close-minded; not all of Mississippi is, but just the part that I came from. They really don’t get outsiders. (Mississippi Quotes) Of course, Mississippi participates in federal matching programs for everything from preserving the post-Civil War home of Jefferson Davis to beaver control. (Mississippi Quotes) I never thought I’d see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we was in Mississippi. (Mississippi Quotes) We must educate and train our children to compete and succeed in the 21st century. Our kids are not going to grow up to compete with children in Alabama or Mississippi. They’re going to grow up to compete with kids in India, and China, all over the world; children who are learning to compete and succeed in the 21st century themselves. (Mississippi Quotes) The issue of equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals has vexed politicians for decades. I have my own cloudy history with the issue, having supported a law in Mississippi that made it illegal for LGBT couples to adopt children. I believed at the time this was a principled position based on my faith. (Mississippi Quotes) My own experience with trains dates to long-ago childhood trips with my family in Mississippi to see my grandmother off at the station in Jackson, bound for Memphis. (Mississippi Quotes) I know my destiny. I was born into animosity, bigotry and hatred. We had water for white folks, and water for coloured folks. White lines, black lines. I came from Beaufort in South Carolina, and it was tougher than Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. (Mississippi Quotes) One of two historically African American communities that sprang up along the Mississippi Gulf Coast after emancipation, North Gulfport has always been a place where residents have had fewer civic resources than those extended to other outlying communities. (Mississippi Quotes) My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father and black mother. (Mississippi Quotes) When you’re from Weir, Mississippi, almost everywhere you go looks like the big city (Mississippi Quotes) I love being so tight on people in close-ups that the veins in their eyes look like the Mississippi River. (Mississippi Quotes) What little family I got is in Mississippi. A whole lot of them died before I left, and my sister died a long time ago, before my mama did. (Mississippi Quotes) My mother was from Mississippi, or is from ‘Mississippi;’ my father was from Alabama. He speaks about conditions in Mississippi and Alabama. They were really the poster children for the bad public laws that segregated, according to race, in our country. (Mississippi Quotes) My name is Natasha Trethewey, and I was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1966, exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi celebrated the first Confederate Memorial Day, April 26, 1866. (Mississippi Quotes) When I went to Memphis and Mississippi and Nashville, I learnt the blues is a whole way of life. I don’t really have the blues, but I can appreciate the honesty and the simplicity of it. (Mississippi Quotes) Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi. (Mississippi Quotes) Finally, the ecological health of the Mississippi River and its economic importance to the many people that make their living or seek their recreation is based on a healthy river system. (Mississippi Quotes) I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs. (Mississippi Quotes) When I made ‘Who Needs Pictures,’ my first album, I had been west of the Mississippi River one time in my life, and that was in fourth grade. We traveled to California for vacation and stayed with some friends of my parents. It was culture shock, and it was different. (Mississippi Quotes) The literacy level at Mississippi prisons? Fifth grade. Can’t read, what are you going to do? If you’ve got a conviction rap, what are you going to do? It’s a real crisis. (Mississippi Quotes) I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping my experience of the world. I had to go to the Northeast for graduate school because I felt like I had to get far away from my South, be outside it, to understand it. (Mississippi Quotes) I was in elementary school in Mississippi, and when Katrina hit, my mom put me in home school. So ever since sixth grade, I’ve been home schooled, which was interesting. (Mississippi Quotes) 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. (Mississippi Quotes) For the good of our environment, the good of the economy, and the good of the Nation, I strongly urge support of the upper Mississippi locks and dams project. (Mississippi Quotes) I grew up very differently than a lot of other people in my hometown in Mississippi. But I can’t imagine my life any other way. I flew home and surprised my best friend at his graduation, and I remember turning to my mom and saying, ‘My graduation was so much cooler than this.’ I had Melissa Joan Hart give my commencement speech. (Mississippi Quotes) If you write a book about a bygone period that lies east of the Mississippi River, then it’s a historical novel. If it’s west of the Mississippi, it’s a western, a different category. There’s no sense to it. (Mississippi Quotes) When I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early 20s, it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like my parents, who had been thrown off the land they’d always known - the plantations - because they attempted to exercise their ‘democratic’ right to vote. (Mississippi Quotes)

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