“My dad was from Mississippi. We are from a really poor family. He died when I was ten. There’s a saying that my mom actually used to say to me when I was a kid, which is, 'A fatherless child thinks all things are possible and nothing is safe.'”— Anderson Cooper, amazon.com
“I move as slowly as a Mississippi detective investigating the murder of a young black man.”— Tony Roche, Armando Iannucci, Will, Nelson Franklin, imdb.com
“My forebears were Confederates...but my very stomach turned over when I had learned that Negro soldiers, just back from overseas, were being dumped out of Army trucks in Mississippi and beaten.”— Harry S Truman, amazon.com
“God doesn’t make mistakes. Hush your mouth. God make plenty of mistakes. You ever see a porcupine? Can’t eat it. Can’t hug it. It’s ugly, sticky, shitting all over the place. Mistake. What about quicksand? Sand you can drown in. You can drown dry. You think God meant to make quicksand? Mistake. You…”— Chris Rock, scrapsfromtheloft.com
“I can't screw up Alabama....We are number 48 in everything and Arkansas and Mississippi aren't going anywhere.”— Charles Barkley, npr.org