Aaron Foley > Quotes

“Detroit is a city that works hard, gets tired, gets dirty, gets defeated, and picks itself up every day and keeps going with a tenacity that amazes anyone who is paying attention.”
― Aaron Foley, The Detroit Neighborhood Guidebook

“It is downtown that we usually hear about in the national press and it is downtown that is spurring the most development and commerce. Yet it is in the neighborhoods that the true wonder of an historic midwestern city reveals itself through the block-minded, God-fearing people who populate it.”
― Aaron Foley, The Detroit Neighborhood Guidebook

“At my first neighborhood community meeting, I faced nine worn, black faces and two white ones. I was easily the youngest person there by thirty years. I suddenly felt foolish, like a kid old enough to know better caught playing pretend. I was introduced and there was a moment of silence before a man with white hair in a worn UAW jacket said, “Hopefully, she can convince more brave, young people to come and save our neighborhood.”
― Aaron Foley, The Detroit Neighborhood Guidebook