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I grew up in Mississippi. I was there for 13 years, and then when I turned 13, I moved out to L.A. Israel Broussard

Out Mississippi Years Up Moved Grew Turned Then

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. Israel Broussard

Home Mom Me School Put Since Schooled Mississippi Been Hit Grade Sixth Which Interesting Katrina Elementary Elementary School Ever

I grew up in Mississippi, and there's no fashion game there. Even in 'Bling Ring,' I had to learn a lot about fashion - you know, the differences between lapels - and it wasn't until we'd wrapped that I really started getting into it. Israel Broussard

Only whites were allowed by law and practice to attend the University of Mississippi - a public institution supported by public dollars. Anything public and supported by public dollars is for me. James Meredith

Me Law Practice Only Allowed Attend Supported Institution Mississippi Were Dollars Anything Public Whites University

I had developed a specifically calculated plan to break the system of white supremacy. My theory was that since Mississippi was the place, this was the ultimate: Mississippi was the place you had to break it. James Meredith

You White System Had Developed Since Calculated Mississippi Supremacy Ultimate Break Place Plan Theory Specifically

You gotta understand - the state of Mississippi was in rebellion. It had rebelled against the United States. Now that has been a very difficult story for America to tell, but that's what actually happened. James Meredith

Ndamukong started out playing soccer, like his sister before him. She excelled at it, played for Mississippi State, made the Cameroon national team. Jeanne Marie Laskas

Made National Before Sister State Out Excelled Like Mississippi She Him His Cameroon National Team Soccer Team Played Started Playing

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. Joe Frazier

For a black student to work in southwest Mississippi for example - or in the Delta in 1960, 1961, 1962 - was high-risk work. John Doar

Work Black Example High-Risk Student Delta For Example Mississippi Southwest

Yet, in 1850 nearly all the railroads in the United States lay east of the Mississippi River, and all of them, even when they were physically mere extensions of one another, were separately owned and separately managed. John Moody

States East Physically Lay River Mere Mississippi Mississippi River Another Were Owned Them Separately Even United United States Railroads Nearly Extensions

I once paddled a canoe the length of the Mississippi River all the way from Itasca to New Orleans. John Sandford

Once Way River New Mississippi Mississippi River New Orleans Canoe Length Orleans

I kinda feel that my brother wrote some of the best country lyrics ever - 'The Ballad of Curtis Loew,' 'Mississippi Kid' and that little hit 'Sweet Home Alabama.' Johnny Van Zant

Best Home Country Sweet Lyrics Kid Kinda Brother Some Feel Mississippi Wrote Ballad Hit Little Ever Alabama

I was born in Cleveland, Ohio; raised primarily in Phoenix, Arizona; and, after running away from home in my teens to play music and bouncing around a bit, settled in Oxford, Mississippi, which I consider more my home than anywhere else in the world. Jonathan Miles

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I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1969, in a time and place where no one was saying, 'Look how far we've come,' because we hadn't come very far, to say the least. Although Jackson's population was half white and half black, I didn't have a single black friend or a black neighbor or even a black person in my school. Kathryn Stockett

Saying Time School Black Half Single White Say Neighbor Born No-One Come Look Mississippi Although Because How How Far Least Friend Very Person Jackson Where Place Far Even Population

Demetrie came to wait on my grandmother in 1955 and stayed for 32 years. It was common, in Mississippi, to have a black domestic cleaning the kitchen, cooking the meals, looking after the white children. Kathryn Stockett

Cleaning Cooking Wait Black Looking White Stayed Kitchen Mississippi Came Years Domestic Common Children After Meals Grandmother

When my dad came here, he came on a scholarship in the late '60s, and he went to Mississippi State. My dad is not a large man. So there's a little Taiwanese guy walking around Mississippi in, like, 1966, and I cannot imagine what that must have been like. Kelvin Yu

The one thing I have wanted to stay away from is the steroids. When I had an attack two years ago in my home state of Mississippi, they put me on steroids, thinking they were doing the right thing, and I had a violent reaction. Mary Ann Mobley

Home Me Doing The Right Thing Thinking State Right Thing One Thing Stay Attack Had Put Steroids Mississippi Reaction Doing Were Years Years Ago The One Thing Wanted The Right Thing Home State Away Right Thing Violent Two

I was attracted to black music for the same reason that I loved those old Irish ballads. Both were social statements of sorts, and both were indigenous to their respective cultures: Ireland, where my father had grown up, and towns like St. Louis along the Mississippi River, where I was growing up. Michael McDonald

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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. Natasha Trethewey

Other Resources Emancipation Those Gulf Gulf Coast Civic Had Along Mississippi Always Been Up Historically Than North American Fewer African Where African-American After Place Communities Coast Residents Extended Two

I'd spent summers growing up in Mississippi, so I had an idea of what the South is like. Patty Jenkins

Summers Spent Had Idea Like Mississippi South Up Growing Growing Up

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