We stayed through the storm, but we didn't have any power or hot water, so we went to West Virginia and stayed with some of my family for a week, ... When we heard Biloxi was starting back to school, we came back. I'm loyal to Coach Windham, because he has been there from the beginning.

It was tough to pick Vanderbilt over West Virginia, ... They're both good schools. When I went on that trip, though, I felt like Vandy was the place for me.

West Nile develops in stagnant water,

In the false American imagination, West Virginia is a joke or else it's a charity case; but more than anything it is unseen, an invisible architecture of labor and struggle; and incarceration shares this invisibility, hidden at the center of everything; our slipshod remedy for an abiding fear, danger pinned to human bodies and then slotted into bunk beds you can't see from any highway.

Deep down, I'm just a West Virginia hillbilly.

People in West Virginia do have cars. We have indoor plumbing. We even use knives and forks.