When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.

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I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio.

quote by Gerald R. Ford
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I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit.

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Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends.

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Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings.

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Detroit, the heart of the country... I grew up on 10 Mile, 2 miles better than 8 Mile.

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Downtown Detroit has more vacant buildings over 10 storeys than any city in the world.

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I went from elementary school to proper training, operatic training, and I went on to the Motown University and learned a lot of things from some wonderful people.

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Home From Work At Dark Detroit: Original 10 12 2009

Home from work at dark Detroit
City night invisible front doors
Shut below roof hung welcome light
A burglars forewarning of porches
Raised three steps above entry
Galleries there where beds once kept
They passed away generations
Who gave mulatto sons to raise
And still they slept
Soldiering from monument to monument
Home from work at dark Detroit
They spun the bail impinged upon the
Forest swell sacked the fields and sung
To the pitch of the gospel themes
The sacred geometry of old lines
Of old masters of slaves
Home from work at dark Detroit
The lot is legal and sweetly placed
For the old master still draws
A time phased consciousness frozen

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poem by Lee B. Mack
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When we were first started we were doing a lot of Motown stuff, but actually playing it more in a rock way. Everybody in the band sang and we did a lot of harmonies.

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Detroit Rock City

I was young about age eighteen,
I went to a place that had a lot of bling.
It was the city of Detroit, like a miniature New York.
Car drives by with license plate a glow,
mid winter with a lot of snow.
Reminds me of Kiss's song Detroit Rock City,
fan dies with a car which was not very pretty.
Bob Ezrin and Paul Stanely wrote the lyrics,
which where fast and slick like sweet syrup,
Now I have one of Kisses recording guitar pics,
used to record one of Kisses greatest hits.
Pic used to record “Rock and Roll All Night”
Rich gave it to me and I hide it out of sight.
Rich says he was friends with Gene Simons,
along time ago and he says he’s not kidding.
Now, Eminem I did visit your Detroit City,
I will return again when you rap with P Diddy.

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poem by Christina Sunrise
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Lord Send Me An Angel

Good Lord, Good Lord send me an angel down
Can't spare no angel will spare you a teasin' brow
Well that new way of loving, swear to god it must be best
For these Detroit women won't let Mr. Jack White rest!
There's a crowd on the corner, wonder what could it be?
One thang but the women just tryin to get to me.
I went down to the station..suitcase in my hand
all the women run cryin Mr.Jack won't you be my man?
Well there was three women..yellow, brown, and black
Take the mayor of Detroit to pick which one I like
One of em' hamtramak yellow
One of em' Detroit brown
but the soutwest darkskin sure to turn my damper down

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Detroit Rock City

I was young about age eighteen,

I went to a place that had a lot of bling.

It was the city of Detroit, like a miniature New York.

Car drives by with license plate a glow,

mid winter with a lot of snow.

Reminds me of Kiss's song Detroit Rock City,

fan dies with a car which was not very pretty.

Bob Ezrin and Paul Stanely wrote the lyrics,

which where fast and slick like sweet syrup,

Now I have one of Kisses recording guitar pics,

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poem by Suzae Chevalier
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Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock 'n' roll movie.

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Papa Hobo

Words & music by paul simon
Mm------
Its carbon and monoxide
The ole detroit perfume
It hangs on the highways
In the morning
And it lays you down by noon
Oh papa hobo
You can see that Im dressed like a schoolboy
But I feel like a clown
Its a natural reaction I learned
In this basketball town
Sweep up
I been sweeping up the tips Ive made
Im living on gatorade
Planning my getaway
Detroit, detroit
Got a hell of a hockey team
Got a left-handed way
Of making a man sign up on that

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song performed by Paul Simon
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I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.

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Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.

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Heaven

[Kracker]
If Heaven ain't alot like Detroit
I don't wanna go
If Heaven ain't alot like Detroit
I just a soon stay home
If they ain't got no Eight Mile
Like they do up in the D
Just send me to Hell or Salt Lake City
It would be about the same to me
It would be about the same to me

[Paradime]
Detroit city
From Aretha to Aaliyah
To Bob Segar to
Joe Louis n' his arena and now me
Paradime the mic of overachievers
Smokin sewer caps bottom feeders and parking meters
A bunch of bad dudes in the mad brew and tattoos
So think twice before you pass through

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song performed by Uncle Kracker from Double Wide
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Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US.

quote by Jim Henson
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Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.

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