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When I came to Detroit, if you threw a stone up in the air and it came down, it would hit an autoworker because the Chrysler Jefferson plant where my husband worked was very close also to where we lived.

— Grace Lee Boggs

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The thing is, it's that Detroiters are hard workers. We've always been hard workers, even when times are down. I've been able to take that with me, that work ethic, to help me build my career.

— Loni Love

If the auto plants in Detroit would just sit around the table and say, 'What do we gotta do to make this thing work?' Instead of, 'I want this and I want that.' They might make it.

— Richard DeVos

I'm from Detroit. I was from a kind of violent neighbourhood.

— Tom Sizemore

Yeah I grew up on the Westside of Detroit.

— Obie Trice

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

— Kid Rock

Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.

— Jim Harrison

I believe that Detroit has a terrific geographic position. It still is a hub of one of the most important industries in the world. There's incredible engineering and other talent.

— Daniel L. Doctoroff

I'm a Detroit kid who grew up with that assembly line mentality: You go to work to make money.

— Kevin Nash

✗Opposing Perspectives

You ingest the automobile in the very air of Detroit. Or at least you did in the 1940s and 1950s.

— Edward Herrmann