Quotes by Jeff Biggers

“It will be like an old-fashioned radio show. Appalachia is a crossroads of music, especially African-American. Its beyond your imagination what came out of there.”

“I found myself in the South. I got picked up by somebody and made a joke about how dangerous it is to hitchhike with hillbillies. He told me to get out.”

“Its not just a backwoods of white, lanky mountaineers. In fact, its been much more of a crossroads of integration and coming together of many different cultures there.”

“My whole thesis is that you cant understand America until you understand Appalachia.”

“The whole point is why the mountains, the land, still determines our culture. The mountains sort of drive how we live.”

“To me the clash of that culture is the beauty of Appalachia.”

“America does need to come up to the mountains to deal with some issues.”

“We need to try to live in sync with our geography.”