“ Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to mone… Jeffrey Eugenides
“ As I witness and participate in our visionary efforts to revitalize Detroit and contrast them with the multibillion dollars' worth of megaprojects advanced by politicians and developed that involve ca… Grace Lee Boggs
“ I bought salvation from a man on the street. He said, "Go down to the beach and let the waves wash your feet. Gabriel Rheaume
“ That Detroit ultimately concentrated on automobiles could be traced to one genius, Henry Ford.... But that the necessary human energy for this development existed in Detroit could be proven through it… William Valentiner
“ Detroit is big enough to matter in the world and small enough for you to matter in it. Jeanette Pierce
“ In Detroit, in July of 1967, what happened was no less than a guerrilla uprising.The Second American Revolution. Jeffrey Eugenides
“ Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings. Steve Yzerman
“ Where I grew up, women’s liberation was when you let a chick out of her cage so she could stretch her legs for 15 minutes. John Rachel
“ ...Americans didn’t stick to cities, which makes us different from the people in other industrialized countries. We no sooner arrived in town, turning those towns into great mid-century metropolises,… Jerry Herron
“ While working in California, I met William Valentiner and Edgar Richardson of the Detroit Institute of Arts. I mentioned a desire which I had to paint a series of murals about the industries of the Un… Diego Rivera
“ The industrial part of Detroit is really the most interesting side, otherwise it’s like the rest of the United States, ugly and stupid. Frida Kahlo
“ Many Detroiters, for example, are beginning to see urban agriculture as a real part of the solution; to grow things right where people live, where they work, and definitely need healthier food on the… Jaye Beeler
“ It’s hard not to empathize with the mayor’s anger, given the injustices he’d suffered, but righteous anger rarely leads to wise policy. Edward L. Glaeser
“ 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 i… Diego Rivera
“ And I'll close by saying this. Because anti-Semitism is the godfather of racism and the gateway to tyranny and fascism and war, it is to be regarded not as the enemy of the Jewish people, I learned, b… Christopher Hitchens
