Quotes About Detroit

The first data-driven investigative story appeared in 1967, when Philip Meyer used social science methods and a mainframe computer to analyze data on race riots in Detroit for the Detroit Free Press. "One theory, popular with editorial writers, was that the rioters

It served as a symbol of the opulence and prosperity of Detroit until the summer of 1967, when the 12th Street Riot kicked off the white flight to the suburbs and the city took its first steps toward ruination. The

American motor-and-music city of Detroit. Two centuries after the settlement's founding, Cadillac's name was a synonym for mass-produced luxury. He thus has the best name recognition today of any French colonist, and his memory resounds in countless song lyrics.

How wonderful it would be to meet an angel, I mused, but then I immediately realised I already had. Not an archangel like Saint Michael, but my human angel from Detroit, wearing an overcoat and no hat, with lank brown hair and eyes the coler of water.

How wonderful it would be to meet an angel, I mused, but then I immediately realised that I already had. Not an archangel like Saint Michael, but my human engel from Detroit, wearing an overcoat and no hat, with lank brown hair and eyes the coler of water.

I wrote some notes on paper napkins for my forthcoming talk, then sat daydreaming about the angels in Wings of Desire . How wonderful it would be to meet an angel, I mused, but then immediately realized I already had. Not an archangel like Saint Michel, but my human angel from Detroit, wearing an overcoat and no hat, with lank brown hair and eyes the color of water.