I don't really think the outburst is recent; there have always been writers in Appalachia. — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
It's not enough to celebrate the ideals that we're built on, liberty and justice and equality for all. Those just can't be… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure… — Sam Trammell Copy Share Image
There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Go walk the streets of Beijing. It's pretty hard to argue it isn't a modern city. Now, if you go outside [of… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a vacation cabin or… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“What keeps a poor child in Appalachia poor is not what keeps a poor child in Chicago poor—even if from a distance,… — Ijeoma Oluo Copy Share Image
“Preston Black couldn't sleep the whole night through, Preston Black couldn't sleep the whole night through. He'd lay in bed 'til the… — Jason Jack Miller Copy Share Image
“Here's how I'll tell you what I think—if you see white smoke then you know I picked a new pope. And if… — Jason Jack Miller Copy Share Image
“While traditionalism can thwart the planners and molders of industry, education, and society in general, fatalism can so stultify a people that… — Jack E. Weller Copy Share Image
“It's Coke, my man. You really think I'm going to let you pour any more alcohol into your body tonight?” — Jason Jack Miller Copy Share Image
“True, beneath the human façade, I was an interloper, an alien whose ship had crashed beyond hope of repair in the backwoods… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
Appalachia is still, for American musicians, a kind of fountain of youth we always go back to, the old home place to… — Paul Burch Copy Share Image
The environmental catastrophes we're presently seeing are considered "normal" though they're horrific. Fracking has made drinking water flammable, families are dying from… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
“Nothing else in the whole wide world matters as much as avenging your sister.” — Jason Jack Miller Copy Share Image
My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education. My mother had a high… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
“What on earth would I do if four bears came into my camp? Why, I would die of course. Literally shit myself… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Finally, we entered Chetaube County, my imaginary birthplace, where the names of the little winding roads and minuscule mountain communities never failed… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“We're all Hitler inside. We're all Christ inside. I'm not keen on the idea, but it's true, isn't it? We've all got… — Jason Jack Miller Copy Share Image
Historians will come to their own judgments about President Kennedy. Here is how I choose to remember him. He was an heir… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
“It was still late summer elsewhere, but here, high in Appalachia, fall was coming; for the last three mornings, she'd been able… — Alex Bledsoe Copy Share Image
I went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second grade and… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
