Detroit Quotes

“Speramus meliora; resurget cineribus.”

“You gotta lose your mind in Detroit, Rock City.”

“In Detroit, niggas don't party. They pull a .44 out.”

“Detroit is the starting line of the world’s imagination.”

“You weren't English or Canadian anymore. You were a Detroiter.”

“Just a city boy born and raised in south Detroit; he took the midnight train going anywhere.”

“Detroit is the first city since antiquity to go above a million in population and then below.”

“Boy toy named Troy used to live in Detroit. Big dope dealer money, he was gettin' some coins.”

“Where's my gangsters, and all my thugs? Throw them hands up and show some love, and I welcome you to Detroit City!”

“Welcome to Detroit, where if you get that promotion? Don't worry, man, them bullets will still be at your ass firing.”

“The new Detroit churning out Schumer-mobiles will make the steel mills of the Soviet Union look the model of efficiency.”

“[T]he first motherfucker popping some shit, he gets killed. That's why we don't call it Detroit, we call it Amityville. You can get capped after just having a cavity filled!”

“Contrary to the emotional blackmail some leftists are attempting to peddle, Baltimore is not America's problem or shame. That failed city is solely and completely a Democrat problem... Like many failed cities, Detroit comes to mind.”

“If heaven ain't a lot like Detroit, I don't want to go. If heaven ain't a lot like Detroit, I'd just a soon stay home. If they ain't got no 8 Mile like they do in "The D", just send me to hell or Salt Lake City. It would be about the same to me.”

“Detroiters are perhaps Detroit’s greatest asset. They have never stopped innovating and caring, and nowhere is this more evident than in the vast proliferation of urban gardens and farms that dot the city’s landscape... In Detroit — that fair city rising from the night sky — all dreams are possible.”

“Cities with some of the most brutal riots, such as Detroit and New Haven, were particularly well-endowed with the then-400-plus federal poverty programs, or that the welfare population was already skyrocketing, despite an unprecedentedly long period of economic growth.”

“I have to tell you, I am thrilled to be here for a number of reasons. First, it's wonderful to be back in Michigan. You can really feel the energy and dynamism that is driving this state's comeback. And in Detroit, we've got new businesses that are opening. Neighborhoods like Midtown and Eastern Market are coming back. The auto industry just had its best year ever.”

“I was watching the news reports from Baltimore and hearing all the condemnations from some about being kept down and the lack of jobs, opportunity, good schools; then why do these blacks keep voting for the same people? And this isn't a phenomenon isolated to Baltimore. Every single major urban center in America is run by Democrats; more specifically, liberal progressives, black or white. The morass that became Detroit.”

“(What does the current state of Detroit mean to you?) That the money and whites fled. That those who made their money out of the labor of hard workers did not give a damn what happened to them. That great music and writing and all kinds of art can still come from a place that is dear to me. That it is possible for Detroit to survive with new ideas but it will be difficult, Growing up in Detroit prepared me to be a lefty and a feminist.”

“And I know my opponent in this election was here in Michigan about a week ago, and it was like he was in a different place. When he visited Detroit on Monday, he talked only of failure, poverty, and crime. He's missing so much about what makes Michigan great. And the same is true when it comes to our country. He describes America as an embarrassment. He said –and I quote – 'We're becoming a third-world country.' Look around you, my friends. Go visit with the workers building rockets. That doesn't happen in third world countries.”