"Since its founding, Detroit has been a place of perpetual flames. Three times the city has suffered race riots and three times the city has burned to the ground. The city's flag acknowledges as much. Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus: We hope for better things; it shall rise from the ashes."

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Source : Charlie LeDuff (2013). “Detroit: An American Autopsy”, p.33, Penguin

Charlie LeDuff

#Race Quotes #Flames Quotes #Cities Quotes

“When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it.”
“Sorrow itself is not so hard to bear As the thought of sorrow coming. Airy ghosts, That work no harm, do terrify us more Than men in steel with bloody purposes. Death is not dreadful; 'tis the dread of deathâ€” We die whene'er we think of it!”
“What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?”
“I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.”
“Happiness is transparent. ... That is its virtue.”
“In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.”
“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”
“He seemed wild and dangerous and carefree--well, he would, would'nt he? What were motorcycles and black leather pants if not the uniform of a wild, dangerous and carefree man?”

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