Quotes Tagged With :mississippi

All my life, the library has always been one of my favorite places to go. (Larry Brown: A Writer's Life....

Roy Dale suspected that Mississippi was beautiful. He wasn't sure. He didn't have anything to compare....

Ambition is like a plague that can only be cured by success.

August in Mississippi is different from July. As to heat, it is not a question of degree but of kind.....

We know You love us. We love You, too. I mean, six, seven thousand years from now . . . won't make no....

I had never read a book written by an African-American. I didn't know that black people could write books.....

She was always saying things like that but I let her be my best friend anyway.

I walked straight to the library. Mrs. Bloom, the librarian, always knows everything.

Winter came in days that were gray and still. They were the kind of days in which people locked in their....

For the rest of the afternoon, Miss Bloom smiled almost as bright as the big yellow sun shining through....