Detroit Quotes - Page 8

• For me, personally, Detroit is a melting pot for everything. We get the best from the East Coast, West Coast and down South.

  Big Sean

  East, Melting, West Coast

  Interview with Sowmya Krishnamurthy, www.askmen.com. June 23, 2011.

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• I have recall. I don't know why or how. I had a guy once who said he played against me in novice [league, for kids under nine], for the Detroit Lasers. And I said, "Oh yeah, we beat you in the tournament, 8-1 and I think I scored seven goals, and the goalie was left-handed." And he was, "Oh my God. I was the goalie!" .

  Wayne Gretzky

  Kids, Thinking, League

  "Wayne Gretzky on the love of his life". Interview with Jonathon Gatehouse, www.macleans.ca. October 6, 2016.

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• I think most people do not imagine how things can change. In Detroit, there are community gardens that are only an indication that the country is coming back to the city. And that is something that actually is necessary to stop the real imminent danger of the extermination of our planet.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Country, Real, Garden

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Detroit was really fun, FYI, in case anybody wants to go to Detroit. I love it. I did.

  Mila Kunis

  Fun, Want, Cases

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• Being here in Detroit, our public education in this city is - it's shocking. And the oversight of it and the oversight of the teachers and the funding is nonexistent, and the priority that's put on it is so low.

  Mitch Albom

  Teacher, Cities, Priorities

  "Non-Politicians Talking Politics: Sports Writer Mitch Albom On 2016 Election". Interview with Scott Simon, publicradioeast.org. October 22, 2016.

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• The [Hillary] Clinton campaign's recent travel schedule shows how seriously it takes this problem. She and her surrogates have held rallies in cities like Philadelphia, Detroit and Cleveland, trying to boost turnout among African-Americans.

  Mara Liasson

  Cities, Philadelphia, African American

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Just take the lack of presence of F1 in the United States. In theory - and logically - you would have an East Coast Grand Prix, a West Coast Grand Prix, and I think you should have a street race in Detroit - it is still the motor capital of the US. You stay in the US for four weeks and could have two to three races, certainly two.

  Martin Sorrell

  Thinking, Race, Should Have

  Source: www.formula1.com

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• [Crack epidemic] definitely has impacted folks in my family, most definitely. I think that's true for most, if not all people, regardless of color, that grew up in and around areas that were closer to the nucleus of the crack epidemic.If you look at Baltimore or D.C., Detroit, Chicago, Oakland, like, Los Angeles.

  Mahershala Ali

  Thinking, Epidemics, Color

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Hair is what connects women in Dakar and Detroit, Oprah [Winfrey] and Opal [Tometi] the Black Lives Matter activist. There's a story in every kink, curl, and coil.

  Michaela Angela Davis

  Hair, Black, Curls

  Source: www.naturallycurly.com

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• Detroit right now is virtually abandoned at its core to the degree that a lot of what had been slums thirty years ago are now wildflower meadows. The rebuilding of Detroit will occur a much smaller scale. It remains to be seen what will become of Detroit's vast suburbs.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Years, Degrees, Wildflowers

  Source: www.treehugger.com

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• The standardization and specialization of industrialization was being undermined by globalization. When people in Bangladesh could produce things much more cheaply than anybody could produce them in Detroit, we no longer were the world capital of industrialization.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  People, Industrialization, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think Detroit shows that we've come to the end of the industrial epoch and have to find a new mode of production.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Thinking, Ends, Shows

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Detroits industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Rome, Ruins, Etching

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• Detroit is an urban hell. But even in this city of the dying auto industry, there is reason to hope, if they manage to combine the creative forces of designers and other intellectual "suppliers" in other ways.

  Charles Landry

  Cities, Creative, Intellectual

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The civil rights movement didn't deal with the issue of political disenfranchisement in the Northern cities. It didn't deal with the issues that were happening in places like Detroit, where there was a deep process of deindustrialization going on. So you have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality. All these things gave rise to the black power movement. The black power movement was not a separation from the civil rights movement, but a continuation of this whole process of democratization.

  Danny Glover

  War, Cities, Issues

  Interview with Ed Rampell, progressive.org. February 8, 2012.

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• My dream in growing up in the city of Detroit was to be Mayor. At the family picnics from the time I was 9-years-old that's what I told people I was going to be. The mayor of the city of Detroit.

  Kwame Kilpatrick

  Dream, Growing Up, Years

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• I didn't want to be president; I didn't want to be governor; I didn't want to be a congress person. I just wanted to be mayor of the city of Detroit. I lived there my entire life.

  Kwame Kilpatrick

  Cities, President, Want

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• I kind of grew up with hip hop and of course being from Detroit I'm a Motown man. Music is in our blood. When you're from Detroit, music is in your DNA.

  Eric Thomas

  Men, Dna, Blood

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• It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I'm doing this crummy work.

  Philip Levine

  Ironic, Facts, Six

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• Detroit's a great music town. If your interaction with it was mainly musical, I'm sure you have a good opinion of the place.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Musical, Towns, Opinion

  Interview by Juliette Lewis, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2011.

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• I would absolutely identify as a New Yorker by nature. I grew up in Detroit. There was not a bone in my body that even considered staying in Detroit for the rest of my life.

  Kristen Bell

  Body, Bones, Grew Up

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was a working class Jewish girl. In my girlhood, anti-Semitism was a daily fact of life in Detroit. I did not come from people who had many options in their lives or many choices open to them. I was a girl in a family in which women were, as in society at large, very much second-class citizens. I did not see why I should accept these forced limitations without a fight. Being free to make my own choices thus became very important to me at an early age.

  Marge Piercy

  Girl, Fighting, Class

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

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• I think electric cars can help save Detroit. They reflect good decision-making, and there has been bad decision making in the auto industry for so long, in my view.

  Chris Paine

  Thinking, Views, Long

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When I went to Detroit, I was very naïve, actually, and I think Patti [Smith] picked up on that quite quickly.

  Steven Sebring

  Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I had met Michael Stipe, and he was such a kind person, and extremely understanding, so I asked him if he knew a photographer who would come to Detroit, where I lived, who would be child friendly and who would respect my home. Michael suggested Steven [ Sebring]. One day a knock came at my door, and when I opened it, there was Steven. He's been like a brother ever since.

  Patti Smith

  Brother, Children, Home

  Source: www.pbs.org

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