I was never fearful or scared. I knew God had me and my wife and children knew it as well so we just marched.

Sometimes your gift takes you to a place that your character is not prepared to handle.

My kids want to go back to Detroit everyday, that's their home. They want to be there. But Detroit is going through something that I don't want to be a part of.

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.

This is the United States of America and unfortunately, race still matters to a lot of people. The evil head of racism doesn't hide, it sticks its head up.

What I learned in politics (is that) it's a very enslaving place to be. It's hard to be free in politics and if the search for your spirit is to be free, it's hard.

Personality is a person among persons. There is no personality of one man on a desert island.

I heard somebody say that you can't judge a tree by the bark it wears but by the fruit it bears.

I was building the plane while flying it in the first term.

Michigan is very racially separated and the city of Detroit itself is 84 percent African-American and the surrounding suburbs are 86 percent White.

The job of being president, understanding the particular policies that America has gotten itself into over the past 400 years.

A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time and at the right place, and when we expect nothing in return

Not what hatches out is the face to the world.

Victor Vigny: A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon.Conor Broekhart: Which resembles a giant banana.

The common factor in all our experiences is wakeful consciousness which turns what happens into an experience or a meaningful reality.

The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.

I had a job; I was, during the war, a nurse, a 'Gray Lady.' We wore a veil and a gray dress.

some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.

To assess the damage is a dangerous act.

Part of the acting gig is when you're let loose some improvs and put stuff into your own words every once in a while. That doesn't get you a writing credit or more money. It just makes it more fun.

Your world will follow your idea about yourself.