Detroit Quotes - Page 2

Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person

Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse.

Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.

I know that's blasphemous when you are from Detroit, but I was never a fan of Motown stuff. I don't care for the production much.

Go ahead and laugh at Detroit. Because you are laughing at yourself.

It doesn't take a genius to see what happens when the entitlement state outgrows the economy upon which it rests. The time of Greece, Cyprus, Portugal, Spain, the rest of insolvent social-democratic Europe — and now Detroit — is the time for conservatives to raise the banner of Stein's Law and yell "Stop." You can kick the can down the road, but at some point it falls over a cliff.

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

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

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

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

Detroit is full of talent.

Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends.

Hollywood has turned into an emotional Detroit.

I care about the children of Detroit.

I wish we could have acted quicker on Detroit or other failing schools.

Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US.

I was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and I hate Michigan.

I was just about 6 weeks old when we moved to Detroit.

I was born in Detroit. I never really saw myself working in comics, I just fell into it. But it's been one of the best things to happen to a kid from Detroit.

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.

Detroit needs a turnaround, not a check.

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.

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

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

Detroit: Cars and rock 'n' roll. Not a bad combo.