112 Quotes About Detroit

It’s a neighborhood where every dad has at least one job and where parents often end conversations with the words: no guts, no glory.

I guess this means we're uck-fayed, don't it Mikee?

Detroit is big enough to matter in the world and small enough for you to matter in it.

I was shown mold, leaking pipes, exposed asbestos insulation, broken toilets, cracked floors, malfunctioning heating units, feces bubbling up from the sewer pipes in the basements. I had seen better government buildings in the slums of Tijuana. Neven and the boys from 23 told me it was bad but what I was seeing was worse than the Baghdad fire department, which actually got more than one hundred fifty million dollars from the United States government, while Detroit got zero.

There ain't no haints in Detroit.

in Detroit, in July of 1967, what happened was no less than a guerrilla uprising.The Second American Revolution.

The city belongs to the black man. The white man was a convenient target until there were no white men left in Detroit. What used to be black and white is now gray. Whites got the suburbs and everything else. The black machine’s got the city and the black machine’s at war with itself. The spoils go to the one who understands that.

In Detroit, we all talked the race game. It is a way of life.

A ghost story’s reduction of a complex moment or the history of building into a series of cliches is reproduced in beautifully staged photos that fetishize the past without truly representing it. “Ruin porn” is the visual analog of the ghost story.