61 Quotes by Kwame Kilpatrick

I know in the Christian church the old ladies use to say “what the devil meant for bad God meant for good.” So some of the things that I think they went out and tried to be detrimental to my life saved me in a lot of ways.

My dream in growing up in the city of Detroit was to be Mayor. At the family picnics from the time I was 9-years-old that’s what I told people I was going to be. The mayor of the city of Detroit.

My kids want to go back to Detroit everyday, that’s their home. They want to be there. But Detroit is going through something that I don’t want to be a part of.

I can be the mayor; I can do it right now. I can go in there right now and put things together. I was truly anointed for that position and I wasn’t mature enough in my spirit, in my manhood to handle that responsibility at the time it was given to me.

What is happening in Detroit is not good so I don’t even want to be a part of that, but there is something on the other side that I may want to be a part of so I don’t know yet.

This is the United States of America and unfortunately, race still matters to a lot of people. The evil head of racism doesn’t hide, it sticks its head up.

I didn’t want to be president; I didn’t want to be governor; I didn’t want to be a congress person. I just wanted to be mayor of the city of Detroit. I lived there my entire life.