Top 37 Kilpatrick Quotes
#1. He don't read. You know he doesn't have a book in his office? Not a fucking book in the shelves. Ain't that some shit? (Adolph Mongo speaking of Kwame Kilpatrick)
Charlie LeDuff
#2. He wasn't an introvert, as he loved his family and his few close friends like Ben Kilpatrick,
RaeAnne Thayne
#3. Sometimes your gift takes you to a place that your character is not prepared to handle.
Kwame Kilpatrick
#5. I heard somebody say that you can't judge a tree by the bark it wears but by the fruit it bears.
Kwame Kilpatrick
#6. Character issues such as drug abuse are not exclusive to Detroit Public Schools. My reference to substance abuse, not intended to focus on any particular school district, was simply used to illustrate this position.
Kwame Kilpatrick
#7. If you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not let them see you cry.
James J. Kilpatrick
#8. Familiar mahogany-stained pews with red velvet cushions sucked the light from the interior.
Sally Kilpatrick
#9. Louis Kelso's formula sounds like Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The whole theory sounds crazy. But, then, one may recall, they said all that of Copernicus too.
James J. Kilpatrick
#10. Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend upon brevity and wit ... They have to fit in context.
James J. Kilpatrick
#11. What is happening in Detroit is not good so I don't even want to be a part of that, but there is something on the other side that I may want to be a part of so I don't know yet.
Kwame Kilpatrick
#12. I didn't want to be president; I didn't want to be governor; I didn't want to be a congress person. I just wanted to be mayor of the city of Detroit. I lived there my entire life.
Kwame Kilpatrick
#13. Use familiar words-words that your readers will understand, and not words they will have to look up. No advice is more elementary, and no advice is more difficult to accept. When we feel an impulse to use a marvelously exotic word, let us lie down until the impulse goes away.
James J. Kilpatrick
#14. People who grow up without a sense of how yesterday has affected today are unlikely to have a strong sense of how today affects tomorrow. They are unlikely to understand in a bone-deep way how the decisions they make now will shape and affect their future.
William Kirk Kilpatrick
#15. Writers must rely more on the feel of a sentence than on the dictates of a rule book.
James J. Kilpatrick
#16. Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.
James J. Kilpatrick
#17. I was building the plane while flying it in the first term,
Kwame Kilpatrick
#18. One way to handle the discrepancy between our beliefs and our sinful inclinations is to repent, pray for grace and forgiveness, and struggle on in the belief that God will forge a greater harmony for us out of our battle with sin. That is the Christian approach. ~ p.75
William Kilpatrick
#20. men, especially in the African American community" know they're not supposed to cry or "bow down,
Kwame Kilpatrick
#21. I don't really care about being sweet to people who don't look out for their employees interests. You know things like that get you loyal workers, but in your case you wouldn't know a good employee from your ass any day of the week.
Sai Marie Johnson
#23. Find out where the people want to go, then hustle yourself around in front of them.
James J. Kilpatrick
#24. I can be the mayor; I can do it right now. I can go in there right now and put things together. I was truly anointed for that position and I wasn't mature enough in my spirit, in my manhood to handle that responsibility at the time it was given to me.
Kwame Kilpatrick
#25. What I learned in politics (is that) it's a very enslaving place to be. It's hard to be free in politics and if the search for your spirit is to be free, it's hard.
Kwame Kilpatrick
#26. I was never fearful or scared. I knew God had me and my wife and children knew it as well so we just marched.
Kwame Kilpatrick
#27. The job of being president, understanding the particular policies that America has gotten itself into over the past 400 years.
Kwame Kilpatrick
#28. I know in the Christian church the old ladies use to say "what the devil meant for bad God meant for good." So some of the things that I think they went out and tried to be detrimental to my life saved me in a lot of ways.
Kwame Kilpatrick
#29. When you are going through something like compaign run nothing happens without Allah's permission. So a lot of the times you just have to surrender to his will and learning how to surrender was a major thing for me, getting me out of the way, surrendering to the will of God.
Kwame Kilpatrick
#31. The chief difference between good writing and better writing may be measured by the number of imperceptible hesitations the reader experiences as he goes along.
James J. Kilpatrick
#32. It wasn't the Supreme Court that expelled God from our public school classrooms. It was the textbook publishers.
James J. Kilpatrick
#33. Personality is a person among persons. There is no personality of one man on a desert island.
Kwame Kilpatrick
#34. Michigan is very racially separated and the city of Detroit itself is 84 percent African-American and the surrounding suburbs are 86 percent White.
Kwame Kilpatrick
#35. Not anymore, ese. What ju was doing? Ju didn't go to work today, but here ju are lazy ass drinking cerveza like nothing.
Sai Marie Johnson
#36. My dream in growing up in the city of Detroit was to be Mayor. At the family picnics from the time I was 9-years-old that's what I told people I was going to be. The mayor of the city of Detroit.
Kwame Kilpatrick
#37. If I were you, Antonio I'd stay my ass right there, and wait on the police. I've about had it with your shit.
Sai Marie Johnson
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