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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.

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 United States, a series that would constitute a new kind of plastic poem, depicting in color and form the story of each industry and its division of labor. Dr. Valentiner was keenly interested, considering my idea a potential base for a new school of modern art in America, as related to the social structure of American life as the art of the Middle Ages had been related to medieval society.

A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.

Being here in Detroit, our public education in this city is - it's shocking. And the oversight of it and the oversight of the teachers and the funding is nonexistent, and the priority that's put on it is so low.

By the end of the 1980s, Seattle had taken on the dangerous lustre of a promised city. The rumour had gone out that if you had failed in Detroit you might yet succeed in Seattle - and that if you'd succeeded in Seoul, you could succeed even better in Seattle... Seattle was the coming place. So I joined the line of hopefuls.

Detroit is full of talent.

Detroit is a city that really stands out. It's been through a very difficult time. There's been a lot of pain here, and the city, physically, has suffered. You can see it in certain neighborhoods, and there's buildings downtown that have been abandoned.

Detroit is a place where we've had it pretty tough. But there is a generosity here and a well of kindness that goes deep.

Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.

Detroit turned out to be heaven, but it also turned out to be hell.

Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.

Detroit: Cars and rock 'n' roll. Not a bad combo.

Detroit's political leadership is a parasite that has outgrown its host.

Detroit's a great music town. If your interaction with it was mainly musical, I'm sure you have a good opinion of the place.

Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock 'n' roll movie.

By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.

Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person

Even drunk, I knew any escape plan that involved going to Detroit, Michigan, was a harbinger of doom.

Faygo's like a Detroit thing, and you can't really find it everywhere, but the difference between Faygo Creme Soda and other cream sodas is that it's foamy. Faygo Creme Soda is almost like Sprite, but it's cream soda, so that's ill!

Everything I've done in my career has started in and around Detroit, you know, the metro area and Michigan.

Everybody has a gun in their car in 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.

For me, personally, Detroit is a melting pot for everything. We get the best from the East Coast, West Coast and down South.

I am a huge Pistons fan. Those were some of my best times in college, watching the Detroit Pistons.

If Detroit was a watershed concert for me, traveling with Willie Nelson through Texas and Louisiana was a milestone of a different sort.

I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.

I grew up in Ann Arbor, about 25 miles west of Detroit. And when you grow up in that area, you get a healthy dose of Motown automatically.

I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit

I care about the children of Detroit.

I grew up in Detroit. I grew up in an environment where you were supposed to be Democrat, where they told you that Republicans were evil people and that they were racist.

I grew up on the West Side - the "near West Side," [in Detroit], as they say - in what would be considered now the inner city.

I love Michigan, to be honest. I don't think I'd live nowhere else. It's cheap! This is Detroit. A little bit of nothing gets you a lot of something.

I just wasn't raised a granola eating, peace love hippie type person. I'm from Michigan and was raised in and around Detroit where it is kind of you get respect and you give respect. That is how I feel.

I know that's blasphemous when you are from Detroit, but I was never a fan of Motown stuff. I don't care for the production much.

I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit.

I'm a son of Detroit. I was born in Detroit.

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 from Mt. Clemens, Michigan. It's right outside Detroit. The suburbs. I was always very heavily involved in theater back then. I was always in drama club or forensics. Anything that you could do that had some performing, I was doing it.

I think Detroit shows that we've come to the end of the industrial epoch and have to find a new mode of production.

It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I'm doing this crummy work.

I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.

It doesn't take a genius to see what happens when the entitlement state outgrows the economy upon which it rests. The time of Greece, Cyprus, Portugal, Spain, the rest of insolvent social-democratic Europe — and now Detroit — is the time for conservatives to raise the banner of Stein's Law and yell "Stop." You can kick the can down the road, but at some point it falls over a cliff.

It's easier to record in LA than in New York and Detroit, because the space in LA is green, and there's sunshine, and I need all those positive vibes.

I was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and I hate Michigan.

I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.

I was brought up in southwestern Ontario where we were taught that Canadian patriotism should not withstand anything more than a five-dollar-a-month wage differential. Anything more than that and you went to Detroit.

I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.

I was kinda scared. I thought Detroit was gonna take me. I would've asked them for so much money they would have to put me on layaway.

It was a time of uncommon possibility and freedom, when Detroit created wondrous and lasting things. But life can be luminescent when it is most vulnerable.