The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia

"I'm 84 years old today. And the computers and the drugs is going to take the world over."

"I ain't gonna snort no pills. Or am I?"

"My name is Mamie White and I'm the biggest and the meanest and the baddest of all the White family."

"So now everybody knows all about Mamie White and Jesco White, now by God it's time you learn about the rest of us fuckin' Whites."

"And there's never another 'nother mother in the world could fill my mother's shoes."

"I chopped a son-of-a-bitch up and threw him in a goddamn mine shaft, up here in the garbage bag. I got three mine shafts up this holler."

"I just now bought ten goddamned green beans—what'cha call 'pain killers,' okay? Fuck 'at camera—and I got 'em for eight dollars a piece and I'm gettin' ready to take 'em up the road, and I'm gon' sell 'em for ten dollars a piece and make me two more dollars on each pill. That's called 'hustle, rustle, 'n bustle.' That's how you survive in the country."

"It's a party, man. A party.""

"Aw, he's going into shock. [points at crying child]"

"We ain't got no pot. It's just a roach-o I lit."

"Jesco, he started sniffing that gas and lighter fluid and we couldn't do nothin' with him."

"If Jesco White ain't high on drugs...if he ain't high on alcohol...you can't stand to be 'round him."

"I know you ain't snortin' no pills. That's not snortin' no pills, Maw."

"It paralyzed her right arm, and her side of her right face."

"After tonight, you might not see Mamie again. Then again, you might."

"I don't give a fuck to go to jail, and I don't care to kill some son-of-a-bitch...anybody that looks at me wrong."

"I'm hurtin'. Really, in my heart, I am hurtin'. I'm losin' my mom, and that's all the fuck I got."

"C'mon. I'll take you and cheer you up. You won't have to worry about this shit."

"I need a Corona. I gotta get the fuck outta here. My nerves is tore up."

"Now, you see all three of us girls...The biggest, the meanest, and baddest. There you go. Now, you see us now...we look pretty goddamn good, but when we leave this bar we're gonna come in like this [stumbles down the corridor]. Who's gonna fuckin' pack Mamie in?"

"We also raised hogs to get our meat. Any piece of hog you can meat. I'm talkin' 'bout from its fuckin' head to its asshole."

"...he was just a disciplined father. And then we all turned out to be fuckin' crinimals [sic]."

"I always carried a pool stick...Always drank a beer in a bottle. I can always break the bottle and shove the neck in your fucking heart... or I can always back you up and get you the fuck out of my face."

"Hell yeah!"

"Well, you know what...he knows how to beep-beep."

"I get a goddamned check from the government saying that I'm fuckin' certified crazy."

"You know we're all gonna die, and we're gonna have to be risen and judged. You go this-a-way and you go this-a-way...if you don't live for the Lord then you're gonna go that way to hell."

"If you don't wanna serve Him, then, when you die, you're gonna have to pay your consequences like me. I'm gonna burn like the rest, I guess. We all going to hell."

"[responding to the question, 'At your funeral, what do you want people to do]: Party their balls off. Blow pot in my face and snort pills on my head, and...fuckin' rock and roll, baby!"

"Come into this world with nothin', I guess I'll die with nothin'. But at least the world knows who the fuck we are."

"Oh, fuck it."

"It's just strange how everything it happened in our family. It seems like our lives have just been a party and we just live like it's a story."

"I took the butcher knife and put it up to her neck. I said if you wanna live to see tomorrow, you better start fryin' them eggs a lil' bit better than what you're fryin' em. I'm tired of eatin' sloppy, slimy eggs."

"And this used to be a grocery store. That's the one I robbed when I went to formin' school when I was younger—on the right side of the road where the church is—and I also robbed it two times and got away."

"That's right. That's the mark of the beast. Jesus sent Moses to tell 'em. Then when the great flood came, that's the reason he shut the door. Him and the animals. And they couldn't get in. They drownded."

"This is the greatest birthday party that you'll remember and cherish forever, from our hearts, Maw, to you. This is from our heart to you. For all the love you've give us over the years."

"We're gonna give you some pickin' and clickin'."

"I like to get really fucked up, you know? Ripped plumb outta the frame, but I can still control myself. I just like to dance and have a good time, till somebody fucks with me the wrong way, then I'm all to pieces. You know, I can't control it then."

"It's like the dead killing the dead. [laughs]"

"Turn me on, turn me loose."

"Well, I've got brain damage on the side of my brain, and I don't know which side, left or right, where I huffed gasoline for ten long years."

"It'd ate a hole out my brain, and the doctor told my wife when they'd come to get me out of the hospital, mental institution... He said, "I'ma tell ya, his brain cell is eat up like a pile of cigarette ashes," but I don't know which cell it is in my head."

"I'll make it — All I can say is this cat's a hustler."

"They tried to charge me with accessory and I told him, I said, 'just go ahead and send my ass to jail 'cause I'm not a snitch.' I wouldn't snitch nobody out."

"I've been in trouble many times. Fightin', cussin' out the cop, drug charges. I've been so many times I can't count."

"Now like if you started some shit with me, it would be, I'd like, I'd fight you."

"I love to fight."

"Uh-uh, I think six cans of pop is too much. It's hyping you up."

"I'll just run up into traffic and they can just kill me!"

"You know what my daddy used to say? What he used to say, 'get too old to cut the mustard, lick the jar.' [laughs] I don't know what he meant by that."