Personality is a person among persons. There is no personality of one man on a desert island.

Sometimes your gift takes you to a place that your character is not prepared to handle.

My kids want to go back to Detroit everyday, that's their home. They want to be there. But Detroit is going through something that I don't want to be a part of.

My dream in growing up in the city of Detroit was to be Mayor. At the family picnics from the time I was 9-years-old that's what I told people I was going to be. The mayor of the city of Detroit.

I was never fearful or scared. I knew God had me and my wife and children knew it as well so we just marched.

This is the United States of America and unfortunately, race still matters to a lot of people. The evil head of racism doesn't hide, it sticks its head up.

What I learned in politics (is that) it's a very enslaving place to be. It's hard to be free in politics and if the search for your spirit is to be free, it's hard.

I heard somebody say that you can't judge a tree by the bark it wears but by the fruit it bears.

I was building the plane while flying it in the first term.

Michigan is very racially separated and the city of Detroit itself is 84 percent African-American and the surrounding suburbs are 86 percent White.

The job of being president, understanding the particular policies that America has gotten itself into over the past 400 years.

The funnel of my family’s salvation must continue narrowing towards the gallows. That journey cannot begin at the parted tips of another woman’s toes

There is strong. There is Army Strong. And then there is Army Wife Strong.

There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.

The reverse side of the coin in having this extraordinary ability to go anywhere, is that no one anywhere is remote any more.

I was seven years old when I learnt the back somi on beam.

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Gordie: Do you think I'm weird? Chris: Definitely. Gordie: No man, seriously. Am I weird? Chris: Yeah, but so what? Everybody's weird

Our job is to read things that are not yet on the page.

Basketball teams, after the perfunctory lay-up drill, fall into the crowded isolation and personal style of 10 city kids shooting at the same basket or playing one-on-one.

It doesn't matter how you live and die, it's how the bards wrote it down.