We are valuable. Detroit and other neighboring communities are places to invest in, not rob.
My brother and late sister and I were raised in Detroit; it was where the middle class across racial lines, the middle class was able to develop, build a home, have for the first time retirement benefits, have a job, and yes, their kids began to go to college.
There’s just something about the audiences in Detroit that I’ve always felt connected to. Detroit is different.
I remember Detroit feeling really unsafe, feeling scared a lot. Our house was broken into, our car was stolen, we had to get a watchdog, we would get beat up in the street, I had my bike stolen. There was just a lot of real anarchy on the streets and sidewalks.
I’m the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.
I didn’t want to make a literal film about Detroit, because it felt like what they were experiencing was more universal than that.
Being in southwest Detroit, when my dad would want to say anything about me or my brothers or sisters, he would start speaking in Spanish to my uncle and my grandmother because we didn’t understand.
It was a June day when I began my career as a national journalist. I stepped into the Detroit Bureau of the ‘Wall Street Journal’ and started on what would be a long, varied, rewarding career. I was 23 years old, and the year was 1970.
Official boundaries are often hard to see. If you head north on Woodward Avenue, away from downtown Detroit, you wouldn’t know exactly when you left the city and crossed over into Oakland County – except for a small sign that tells you.
I was born and raised in Detroit.
If you want to talk about EDM, let’s talk about Detroit underground music, Chicago house and let’s talk about all the things that got us to this place. We all get on the train of dance music. We need to all respectfully look through the carriages that have come before us and realize how we got here.
I quit because I didn’t feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game.
We want to win a World Series for Detroit. That’s our goal.
Venture for America operates in communities that could generally use more innovation: Detroit, New Orleans, Baltimore, and other U.S. cities. So I’m obviously a big believer in innovation and progress as key drivers of economic growth and prosperity.
I’ve seen schools in Detroit where the windows are broken, where there’s no heat, and children are sitting with their coats on in class in the middle of a snowstorm. I’ve also seen schools in California with Olympic-sized swimming pools and cafeterias like five-star restaurants.
A lot of the stories about urban America tend to be written on the margins. We focus a lot on these big global cities – New York, San Francisco – or we focus on cities that are having the toughest time – Detroit, Newark, Camden.
Anyone who has seen the auto factories in Detroit and the oil fields in Texas knows that Japan lacks the national power for a naval race with America.
Do I want a shot at the belt? Yes, of course I do. Put it this way: I am Barry Sanders on the Detroit Lions. You love to watch me, but you’ll never see me play in the Super Bowl. It’s just one of those things. It’s about politics. It’s not about fighting.
Growing up close to Detroit, my brother is a huge Red Wing fan, my dad was a huge Gordie fan.
I’m from Detroit, so not exactly Buckingham Palace.
Detroit, the heart of the country… I grew up on 10 Mile, 2 miles better than 8 Mile.
Detroit Pistons basketball slogan: When the going gets tough, we fire the coach.
There aren’t any negative thoughts about my time in Detroit; I just didn’t play. Sometimes you have to go through that at different stages. I went through it during a tough period, my first year in the league, but it was a good year for me off the court.
I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit.
Every loan that we did in the City of Detroit in the 10 years they studied – between 2005 and 2014 – were conventional FHA, VA loans with average interest rates of 6%.
I really hate the Detroit Pistons’ mascot Hooper. A lot of beef with him for a long time. I don’t why, he just started going after me.
From the takeover of Detroit and the failed stimulus packages to the enactment of Obamacare, the president and congressional Democrats chose to use Americas economic crisis as an excuse to expand government rather than as an opportunity to responsibly shrink it.
Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.
I was born in Missouri, but I was raised in Detroit. One of my stock and trades is accents.
Some said he shouldn’t save Detroit. But President Obama made the tough and right call to save more than a million American jobs in an important, iconic industry.
You can’t even look outside because everything’s so crazy, especially in America. And I live in Detroit! There’s the economy, and the fact you can’t even open your door any more without going nuts.
I was just about 6 weeks old when we moved to Detroit.
I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit.
I wish we could have acted quicker on Detroit or other failing schools.
I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.
After three failed marriages, I know what it’s like to be replaced. So that’s kind of how Joey Harrington must feel today… A former No. 1 choice looks to me like he’s going to be a bust in Detroit.
I played golf all over Detroit.
I think all males from Detroit have an obsession with cars.
The car culture is part of living in Detroit.
I grew up in the city of Detroit, where a lot of people didn’t have work opportunities, but they were good, hard-working people, including I had a single mom who took care of me and my brother.
I had sort of exhausted all the avenues playing in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my brother, I ended up in California and went to the Musicians Institute in L.A. I wanted to get better as a player.
I want my media to be raw and uncut, and I want to articulate it in a spectacular, vernacular Detroit style.
I don’t believe $25 billion or $50 billion or $100 billion is going to change the way Detroit does business.
Detroit’s industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don’t know why, but he did.
When I am president, I will work to ensure that all of our kids are treated equally and protected equally. Every action I take, I will ask myself, ‘Does this make life better for young Americans in Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Ferguson, who have as much of a right to live out their dreams as any other child America?’
If the auto plants in Detroit would just sit around the table and say, ‘What do we gotta do to make this thing work?’ Instead of, ‘I want this and I want that,’ they might make it.
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.
I grew up in one of those households where, growing up in Detroit, you gravitate towards music and cars because we were the capital for a long time. Especially during my childhood. We were the Motown sound. We were the Motor City.
If you want to be in the automotive business, you go to Detroit, and you figure it out. If you want to be in entertainment, go to where it’s at. Go to Hollywood, go to New York.
I fought in Detroit 23 times.
Being from Detroit, I often went to the roller skating rink. I can skate backwards, forwards, and even twirl on skates, LOL!
I grew up watching ‘Ghostbusters.’ I loved that movie before I knew it was a comedy! As a kid, I lived between Ghana and Detroit and in Ghana for, like, first and second grade. And I had a VHS tape of that, and I would watch it every day. It’s kind of like why I got into comedy.
Growing up, I was a Detroit Pistons fan, being from Flint. During not the Bad Boys but Chauncey Billups and Ben Wallace era, and growing up, I always wanted to be a Piston.
My mom is from Ghana, and my dad is from Detroit, so I would go back and forth to Africa a lot.
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.
Definitely just growing up in general influenced me; Detroit happened to be where I was. I feel like the city definitely has made an impact on my life and made me who I am. Detroit has an unmistakable soul – nobody can duplicate the soul we bring to the game. From Motown to J Dilla to Eminem to anything.
I like Detroit a lot.
I grew up a Detroit Tigers fan, and now to be an owner of the Dodgers is amazing.
Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock ‘n’ roll movie.
Detroit’s really important to the success of our state. You know, you can’t have a successful Michigan if the biggest city isn’t a success as well.
I am a huge Pistons fan. Those were some of my best times in college, watching the Detroit Pistons.
