“Go ahead and laugh at Detroit. Because you are laughing at yourself.”

“The city belongs to the black man. The white man was a convenient target until there were no white men left in Detroit. What used to be black and white is now gray. Whites got the suburbs and everything else. The black machine’s got the city and the black machine’s at war with itself. The spoils go to the one who understands that.”

“In Detroit, we all talked the race game. It is a way of life.”

“Go ahead and laugh at Detroit. Because you are laughing at yourself.”