“ Between 1882 and 1968, more black people were lynched in MIssissippi than in any other state. Ta-Nehisi Coates
“ White ain't nothing.'Mama's grip did not lessen. 'It is something, Cassie. White is something just like black is something. Everybody born on this Earth is something, and nobody, no matter what color… Mildred D. Taylor
“ In a little while they were kissing. In a little while longer, they made their slow sweet love.The iron bed sounded like a pine forest in an ice storm, like a switch track in a Memphis trainyard, like… Lewis Nordan
“ Stay fit and live long and prosper, but write your own obituary now, while you can, just in case. Jill Conner Browne
“ Roy Dale suspected that Mississippi was beautiful. He wasn't sure. He didn't have anything to compare it to. He hadn't even ever been out of the Delta. Lewis Nordan
“ Drilling without thinking has of course been Republican party policy since May 2008. With gas prices soaring to unprecedented heights, that's when the conservative leader Newt Gingrich unveiled the sl… Naomi Klein
“ Humans are aware of very little, it seems to me, the artificial brainy side of life, the worries and bills and the mechanisms of jobs, the doltish psychologies we've placed over our lives like a stenc… Brad Watson
“ They had buried him under our elm tree, they said -- yet this was not totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart. Willie Morris
“ You said you left Mississippi in 1854," Ron says. He turns to Mamuwalde and asks "Were you a runaway slave?" "Not at all," Cindy Lou answers. "Daddy freed him." Ron's jaw almost hits the floor. His wi… Daven Anderson
“ They cried. Yes, yes, they cried. Cried more tears than the Mississippi could hold, but those tears never washed away their faith… Andrew Galasetti
“ Winter came in days that were gray and still. They were the kind of days in which people locked in their animals and themselves and nothing seemed to stir but the smoke curling upwards from clay chimn… Mildred D. Taylor
