Detroit Quotes - Page 9

• In November 1963, [Malcolm X] gives his famous message to the grassroots address in Detroit, which really kind of marks off the real turning point in his own development.

  Manning Marable

  Real, Giving, Development

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• I don't run a non-profit. There are lots of non-profits in America - in Detroit, parts of Wall Street, etc. I run a not for profit. We're a business. The only difference is that instead of selling soap or sneakers, we sell hope and leadership.

  Nancy Lublin

  Running, Wall, Sneakers

  "Our Not-for-Profit Business" by Nancy Lublin, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 21, 2008.

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• Shepard Fairey, the street artist responsible for President Obama's 'Hope' poster, is now facing vandalism charges in Detroit. It's pretty serious. Detroit officials say the artist's spray paint caused over $9,000 worth of improvements.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Artist, President, Vandalism

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• You also had in Detroit that summer, an early variation of Ferguson. A black prostitute was shot in the back by police. And all of the efforts that a very progressive police chief and mayor of that period had put into trying to restore race relations started to fall apart again, and you could see that unraveling for several years until the riots or rebellion of 1967.

  David Maraniss

  Summer, Fall, Race

  "Super Bowl Commercial Inspires Maraniss To Write About Detroit's Better Times". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. January 14, 2016.

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• You look at the inner cities,I just left Detroit, and I just left Philadelphia.nd I've met some of the greatest people I'll ever meet within these communities. And they are very, very upset with what their politicians have told them and what their politicians have done.

  Donald Trump

  Cities, Philadelphia, People

  Source: time.com

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• That feeling of hopelessness and racism has been looming over Detroit ever since I was a kid.

  Robert Hood

  Kids, Racism, Feelings

  Source: thequietus.com

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• So, I mean, there's still vast swaths of the city that are suffering from a lack of jobs and poor housing and poor public schools, but they are building momentum - you know, techies, foodies, artists, musicians, all coming to Detroit. So there is this vibrancy. You see it in the newspapers every day - some story about the new Detroit.

  David Maraniss

  Jobs, School, Mean

  "Super Bowl Commercial Inspires Maraniss To Write About Detroit's Better Times". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. January 14, 2016.

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• We don't hear our president [Barack Obama] talking about the need for high-quality jobs for everybody, giving it priority, not just giving a speech in Detroit. That's fine, but speaking to Tim Geithner, speaking to Larry Summers. When are you going to make jobs, jobs, jobs a priority rather than Wall Street, Wall Street, Wall Street a priority? That's what I'm concerned about.

  Cornel West

  Summer, Jobs, Wall

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• My step-dad started playing hockey in Detroit so we moved and I had to start home school. I started watching movies since I had a bunch of free time and then I was like, 'You know what? I want to give this a shot, move back to L.A., and audition.' The first show I booked was a show called Threshold with Carla Gugino and it was obviously a terrifying experience and I felt out of my comfort zone, but it made me want to keep going because it was fun.

  Steven R. McQueen

  Fun, Dad, Moving

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• My favorites are Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye, but those are a little off in terms of getting Detroit right on the head. But of course, you know, "Dancing In The Streets." You can't forget the Motor City. And we can't forget the Motor City.

  David Maraniss

  Cities, Dancing, Littles

  "Super Bowl Commercial Inspires Maraniss To Write About Detroit's Better Times". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. January 14, 2016.

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• I think that the Detroit auto industry is important to the United States. It's important for hundreds of thousands of Americans who have their jobs as a result.

  John Boehner

  Jobs, Thinking, Important

  "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 23, 2008.

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• I grew up on the West Side - the "near West Side," [in Detroit], as they say - in what would be considered now the inner city.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Cities, Would Be, West

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• I was born in '58, so the riot in Detroit in 1967 was a memorable introduction to the issue of race and how race made a difference in American society. And then the next year, of course, Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. And the Detroit Tigers winning the World Series. All of that made a huge impression on my growing mind.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Kings, Memorable, Winning

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I was kinda scared. I thought Detroit was gonna take me. I would've asked them for so much money they would have to put me on layaway.

  Deion Sanders

  Scared, Take Me

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• When I came to Detroit, if you threw a stone up in the air it would hit an autoworker on its way down. A few years after that, if you threw a stone in the air it'd hit an abandoned house or a vacant lot on its way down. And most people saw those vacant lots as blight. But meanwhile during World War II, blacks had moved from the South to the North. And they saw these vacant lots as places where you could grow food for the community. And so urban agriculture was born.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  War, Agriculture, Air

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like that you feel everything is perishing, evanescent and going away very quickly.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Suicide, Growing Up, Book

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• I really don't think that Detroit was any different than New York of Boston or Philadelphia. Kids always wanted to listen to music outside because that's where they hung out with their friends.

  Diana Ross

  New York, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I became a professional actor in Detroit and I was able to earn some money. It was a good job because it permitted me to study. It fit perfectly with school.

  James Lipton

  Jobs, School, Actors

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

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• Every action I take, I will ask myself - does this make better for younger Americans in Baltimore, in Chicago, in Detroit, in Ferguson, who have really, in every way, folks, the same right to live out their dreams as any other child in America?

  Donald Trump

  Dream, Children, America

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The city of Detroit is the living, breathing example of Hillary Clinton's failed economic agenda.

  Donald Trump

  Breathing, Cities, Example

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Chanting doesn't stop you from being creative or productive. It actually helps you concentrate. I think this would make a great sketch for television: imagine all the workers on the Ford assembly line in Detroit, all of them chanting Hare Krishna Hare Krishna while bolting on the wheels. Now that would be wonderful. It might help out the auto industry, and probably there would be more decent cars too.

  George Harrison

  Thinking, Car, Creative

  "The Mantra 'Keeps Me in Tune with Reality'". Interview with Mukunda Goswami, www.beliefnet.com. September 4, 1982.

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• I'm a son of Detroit. I was born in Detroit.

  Mitt Romney

  Son, Born

  Source: genius.com

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• It's just good that Detroit is coming back. I'm so happy it's coming back because it needs to come back. When I do my trips around the world, and I can be anywhere, but I always see somebody from Detroit or Chicago. Those guys are world travelers.

  Mike Tyson

  Guy, Chicago, Needs

  Source: www.mlive.com

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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.

  Danny Glover

  Issues, Rights, Cities

  Source: progressive.org

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• [The World Series] introduced me for the first time to a team with a lot of black players. Detroit had about three of them: I think it was Willie Horton, Gates Brown, and Earl Wilson - might have been one or two more in '68.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Team, Player, Thinking

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