#detroit

I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#car #chicago #colors #detroit #gangster

I think when you saw this year's playoffs, Miami and Detroit have a pretty fierce rivalry now. Also, the Suns and San Antonio look like they're starting to develop something there. I look forward to seeing those rivalries continue and develop. ↗

— John Starks

#antonio #continue #detroit #develop #fierce

I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit. ↗

— Anna Sui

#grew #i #suburbs #up

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

— Charlie LeDuff

#detroit #humor #literature #humor

On the eleventh of June, 1805, a torrid fire engulfed a small town in the Michigan Territory. An unflappable local priest, Father Gabriel Richard, assessed the devastation by proclaiming “Speramus meliora; resurget cineribus.” The Latin phrase, having the equivalent of “We hope for better things; it shall rise from the ashes” in English, would become the battered municipality’s motto. Two centuries on, the credo applies more than it ever has, for that town was none other than Detroit and it has become ashes once more. ↗

— Dan Greenup

#death

Detroit is a city that really stands out. It's been through a very difficult time. There's been a lot of pain here, and the city, physically, has suffered. You can see it in certain neighborhoods, and there's buildings downtown that have been abandoned. ↗

— Michael Imperioli

#been #buildings #certain #city #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. ↗

— Jack White

#detroit #fan #i #know #motown

The death knell for Detroit’s automobile industry was neither competition from abroad nor gross mismanagement. Rather, the Motor City was shut down by the very class of legislators that now purport to save it. ↗

— Dan Greenup

#death

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

— Ram Dass

#bus #detroit #get #take #you

Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock 'n' roll movie. ↗

— Edward Furlong

#detroit #kind #like #movie #random