"At the end of the day, the Detroiter may be the most important American there is because no one knows better than he that we're all standing at the edge of the shaft."

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Source : Charlie LeDuff (2013). “Detroit: An American Autopsy”, p.11, Penguin

Charlie LeDuff

#The End Of The Day Quotes #Important Quotes #May Quotes

“Keep your eyes on Christ, not the circumstances you find yourself in or the feelings you are experiencing.”
“We should never, never be afraid or ashamed about dreams. The dreams wonâ€™t all come true; we wonâ€™t always make it; but where there is no vision a people perish. Where people have no dreams and no hopes and aspirations, life becomes dull and a meaningless wilderness.”
“We live in story like a fish lives in water. We swim through words and images siphoning story through our minds the way a fish siphons water through its gills. We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story.”

Source : Christina Baldwin (2010). “Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives through the Power and Practice of Story”, p.77, New World Library
“With all of the people in the world and all of the suffering and all of the things that people are forced to do for lack of other alternative, the fact that I had a subsidized education and got to go right into a life of playing music for a living, what a stupidly fortunate place to be.”

Source : Source: www.songfacts.com
“I'm tryin' to be part of a functioning society so I can't listen to Curren$y man. His rhymes make me high haha.”

Source : "Exclusive: Sean Price Speaks On Mic Tyson, “The Pill” w/ Ill Bill, & Trading Boot Camp For Wu-Tang". Interview with Chris Pattinson, www.hiphopsite.com. October 27, 2012.
“You continue to evolve with each album that goes by and, as an artist, you continue to expand with every recording project.”
“A lot of people think Formula One isn't a sport because everyone drives a car when they go to work in the morning. But we're pulling up to six G on a corner or during breaking, which is almost like being a fighter pilot. So we have to do a lot of work on our neck muscles.”

Source : "Button your lip" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2005.
“Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.”

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