People in Detroit aren't just urban gardening. They're starting a new mode of education. They're trying to give children the education to be "solutionaries" rather than people who are going to get jobs in the system. And that is a huge change, a cultural revolution.
I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don't know why, but he did.
I'm not a New Yorker. I grew up in Detroit. A lot of people think it's one big city but they're completely different.
The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.
I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.
I was born in Detroit, in an all black neighborhood.
I was in Vancouver, and I was in what I was told was the poorest neighborhood in North America - which I find very hard to believe because has anyone here ever been to Detroit?
When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.
My father and I marched with Martin Luther King Jr. through the streets of Detroit.
Growing up, I always thought of Detroit as a basketball town because of the Pistons, but everyone says it's really, at its core, a football town.
Governor Romney supported the bailout of Wall Street and decided not to support the bailout of Detroit.
No. I know that's blasphemous when you are from Detroit.
Detroit's political leadership is a parasite that has outgrown its host.
I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.
Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US.
Go where you're celebrated, not tolerated. I'm celebrated in Detroit.
I grew up not far from where Motown was founded, maybe 300 miles from Detroit and I've always liked - I used to like the way they made records. I still do, I just haven't had a chance to hear as much. They used to entertain me.
I had sort of exhausted all the avenues playing in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my brother, I ended up in California and went to the Musicians Institute in L. A. I wanted to get better as a player.
Well, there were several things. One was that the industry itself built in Detroit was abandoning the city - taking factories elsewhere, the corporate headquarters elsewhere.
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.
