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

Book:Glory Be

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“It may sound funny, but I love the South. I don't choose to live anywhere else. There's land here, where a man can raise cattle, and I'm going to do that someday. There are lakes where a man can sink a hook and fight bass. There is room here for my children to play, and grow, and become good citizens...”

Civil Rights Movement Mississippi Authors

Book:For Us, The Living

Source: For Us, The Living

“When she thinks a book is very good, what she says to herself is: yes, that's how things are. I hadn't thought of it before, but that's how things are.”

Life Reading Books Mississippi Authors

Book:Witnessing

Source: Witnessing

“Love don't just go away like that, Cille," Sandman said. "It do.”

Love Mississippi Authors

Book:Where the Line Bleeds

Source: Where the Line Bleeds

“We were running all over the front lawn and under the rainspouts, barefooted, in our underpants, with the rain pelting down, straight cold gray rain of Delta summers, wonderful rain. -Mexico”

Rain Weather Mississippi Authors

Book:Light Can Be Both Wave and Particle

Source: Light Can Be Both Wave and Particle

“For the rest of the afternoon, Miss Bloom smiled almost as bright as the big yellow sun shining through the front picture window. Her library was filled up with people who loved books.”

Happiness Books Civil Rights Movement Libraries Mississippi Authors

Book:Glory Be

Source: Glory Be

“My rhythm was joined with that of the Mississippi seasons. To change would shift everything inside of me...”

Mississippi Mississippi Authors

Book:Them Bones

Source: Them Bones

“I sat there listening to "We Shall Overcome," looking out of the window at the passing Mississippi landscape.”

Civil Rights Movement Mississippi Authors

Book:Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South

Source: Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South

“Christophe peeled the shrimp slowly and carefully: that was his way around her, and it was the exact opposite of his usual demeanor. She knew it for what it was: love.”

Love Mississippi Authors

Book:Where the Line Bleeds

Source: Where the Line Bleeds

“It's so nice to be around a man who isn't hung up about his car," she said. "Mom, I can't believe you're saying that. You treat that Coupe Deville like it's a member of the family." "But I'm a woman, darling. I'm supposed to feel that way about my Deville.”

Cars Mississippi Authors

Book:The Green-Eyed Hurricane

Source: The Green-Eyed Hurricane

“I had never read a book written by an African-American. I didn't know that black people could write books. I didn't know that blacks had done any great things. I was always conscious of my inferiority and I always remembered my place - until the Civil Rights Movement came to the town where I was born and grew up.”

Memoir African Americans Playwright Civil Rights Movement Mississippi Authors

Book:From the Mississippi Delta: A Memoir

Source: From the Mississippi Delta: A Memoir

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