Detroit Quotes

Hollywood has turned into an emotional Detroit.

Detroit is full of talent.

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.

I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.

When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.

It's been a great honor for me to be a player for the Detroit Red Wings, to play for an Original Six franchise. I know I'm far from perfect, but I learned a lot.

I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit

I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.

I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit.

If Detroit was a watershed concert for me, traveling with Willie Nelson through Texas and Louisiana was a milestone of a different sort.

I think me leaving Detroit shaped my style. Me leaving, going to New York, going to L.A. and seeing what they were doing there. I think that inspired me more than what people were doing back home.

I was in Vancouver, and I was in what I was told was the poorest neighborhood in North America - which I find very hard to believe because has anyone here ever been to Detroit?

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

I think Detroit would do real well if we started repopulating it with young, aspirational people.

I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.

Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.

I see the people in Detroit are very - they're like a lot of cities, but they're very proud to be from there and they really want to see change and they really want to see good things happen.

Everything I've done in my career has started in and around Detroit, you know, the metro area and Michigan.

Even drunk, I knew any escape plan that involved going to Detroit, Michigan, was a harbinger of doom.

I have no interest in romanticizing poor black people, having been one of them myself in our beloved hometown of Detroit.

There's only one movie theater in the entire city of Detroit. The entire city has one open movie theater, and it is in the - it is in the General Motors headquarters complex.

Detroit needs a turnaround, not a check.

I was born in Detroit, in an all black neighborhood.

If I was an exceptional human being in Detroit, then I saw no reason why I couldn't be an exceptional human being in Mississippi. In Hattiesburg.

Never was a person more mortified than I was at this time, to see so fair an opportunity to push a victory; Detroit lost for want of a few men.

My family was blue collar, a middle-class kind of thing. My father was born in Detroit, Italian-American. My mother is English. She acted on the stage with Diana Dors. Her parents were French.

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

I consider the Detroit Red Wings one of the greatest franchises in any sport. For a player to come in and play, it's so special to wear the jersey.

I am a huge Pistons fan. Those were some of my best times in college, watching the Detroit Pistons.

I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.

From an early age, music was my only thing. You come from Detroit, you learn how to make the most of what you can do best.

I was born in Missouri, but I was raised in Detroit. One of my stock and trades is accents.

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.

Ten Delta Airlines baggage handlers were arrested for smuggling drugs into Detroit. Yeah, you can tell Delta was involved, because the drugs were supposed to be smuggled into Chicago.

Our bailout of Detroit will be remembered as the equivalent of pouring billions of taxpayers' money into the mail-order catalogue business on the eve of the birth of eBay.

The influence is really all over the place. Detroit, definitely because of Motown and Stooges. When you come from a place like Detroit, you're really proud of what you have there.

High school football in Detroit was not easy at all. There were talented players everywhere.

I grew up in Detroit. I grew up in an environment where you were supposed to be Democrat, where they told you that Republicans were evil people and that they were racist.

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

We know about the Detroit offense with Calvin Johnson, the best receiver in the game. If this defense continues to play at this pace, they may have something to say about the NFC North.

I lived in Detroit until I was six. My older sister was living with us, and she listened to the Ohio Players and Stevie Wonder, so I grew up listening to stuff like that.

I got into Kiss before I got into anybody. The first thing I heard was Detroit Rock City. I heard it in the school library, where I lived.

I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.

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.

I love Michigan, to be honest. I don't think I'd live nowhere else. It's cheap! This is Detroit. A little bit of nothing gets you a lot of something.

I haven't reached nirvana yet, but I've been to Detroit.

Well, there were several things. One was that the industry itself built in Detroit was abandoning the city - taking factories elsewhere, the corporate headquarters elsewhere.

It was a time of uncommon possibility and freedom, when Detroit created wondrous and lasting things. But life can be luminescent when it is most vulnerable.

Detroit's so bad this year they might lose their bye week.

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