32 Quotes by Charlie LeDuff

Somehow, the city of promise had become a scrap yard of dreams. But fighters do what they do best when they’ve.

The timing of Moroun’s hat giveaway stunt was as unfortunate as the selection of hats themselves. They were not your run-of-the-mill knitwear; they were, in fact, ski masks. The type gunmen use to stick up liquor stores.

He called himself her pimp, except for the fact, he said, that he didn’t like standing in the night air.

He understood that everybody’s somebody to someone. He.

I am not the best gauger of destitution, my judgment having been warped by years of reporting in Detroit. By comparison, in cities like St. Louis and Chicago and Los Angeles, the “ghettos” appear relatively nice. Livable. No falling-in porches. In West Side Chicago, the streets were paved and swept. The apartment buildings occupied. The grass cut and the stores full. What was more, there was foot traffic.