Emi Richardson

“What our generation failed to learn was the nobility of work. An honest day's labor. The worthiness of the man in the white socks who would pull out a picture of his grandkids from his wallet. For us, the factory would never do. And turning away from our birthright - our grandfather in the white socks - is the thing that ruined us.”
― Charlie LeDuff, Detroit: An American Autopsy

“Go ahead and laugh at Detroit. Because you are laughing at yourself.”
― Charlie LeDuff, Detroit: An American Autopsy

“What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“Some people are doomed from birth because their environment is so toxic.”
― Charlie LeDuff, Detroit: An American Autopsy