Quotes tagged ‘Detroit’

“I grew up in a city that is the most beautiful, blackest city in the country, the city of Detroit and every corner is a reminder of the civil rights movement. I saw what oppression and equality looks like, I saw that separate but equal doesn’t work.”

— Rashida Tlaib, jewishinsider.com

“I am still in awe that I was able to purchase a house at this time in my life.”

— Marie Claire, marieclaire.com

“after Nazim Hikmet, for & after Rassan At the Detroit Metro Airport with the turtle-hours to spare between now & my flight, there is such a thing as the kindness of the conveyor belt who lends me its slow, strange mollusk foot as I stand quiet, exhausted, having been alone in my bed for days now, sl…”

— Aracelis Girmay, apmpodcasts.org

“Now listen to me, my tough little friend. I don't know from under what stone you crawled, or where you get these ridiculous ideas about me, but it seems painfully obvious you haven't the slightest fucking idea who you're dealing with. Now, my advice to you is crawl back to your little stone in Detro…”

— Danilo Bach, Daniel Petrie Jr., Victor Maitland, Paul Reiser, imdb.com

“Well, you know what they say about Detroit. It's all fun and games till they shoot you in the face.”

— Carly Wray, Matthew Weiner, Roger Sterling, John Slattery, imdb.com

“Los Angeles is not what you see in the movies. It's like Detroit with palm trees.”

— Carly Wray, Matthew Weiner, Don Draper, Jon Hamm, imdb.com

“I'm afraid that someday I'll kill some pitcher. It is one thing I've always dreaded. My heart stood still in that game in Detroit when I almost got Ehmke with that drive through the box. I thought for a certainty that the ball would hit him before he got his hands up to protect himself. A couple of…”

— Babe Ruth, en.wikiquote.org

“Back home in Louisiana I had never seen black people who owned things. When I came to Detroit, I saw people own businesses. They had big homes. Just a lot of things I wasn't accustomed to. I just fell in love with the Tigers and knew this was the place I wanted to be.”

— Earl Wilson, thedeadballera.com

“Just the whole atmosphere around the park was special….The thing about Tiger Stadium was the fans. Even when you go to places like New York, which is supposed to have the biggest fan base, you don’t get any better fans than Detroit’s.”

— Earl Wilson, detroitathletic.com

“I spent the two and one-half months between my meeting with the Art Commission and the beginning of my actual mural work in soaking up impressions of the productive activities of the city. I studied industrial scenes by night as well as by day, making literally thousands of sketches of towering blas…”

— Diego Rivera, amazon.com

“That really, you know, that struck a chord with me. I just felt, you know, there's just such an injustice. I'll be damned if I'm giving it to any record company. In the moment, I just was trying to do the right thing, you know what I mean?”

— Jeff Bubeck, npr.org