Quotes Tagged With :mississippi

The river breeze washed over him. He saw the magnificent views of the city and the bridge connecting....

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

They had buried him under our elm tree, they said -- yet this was not totally true. For he really lay....

She wore heavy sandals, with socks. No kid in the entire state of Mississippi wore black socks in the....

I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.

Cuddle up. Rain always stops. It always stops. It always does. -The Brown Cape

Just look what happens to poets," I used to tell my honors class on the first day of school. "Half the....

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

He read it over twenty times and though the darkness that sang on held steady about him, the unhurried....

You said you left Mississippi in 1854," Ron says. He turns to Mamuwalde and asks "Were you a runaway....