“When I came to Detroit, if you threw a stone up in the air and it came...” — Grace Lee Boggs Quote

“When I came to Detroit, if you threw a stone up in the air and it came down, it would hit an autoworker because the Chrysler Jefferson plant where my husband worked was very close also to where we lived.”

“Jimmy Boggs was born in a little town called Marion Junction, Alabama, where there were as many pigs, or more pigs, than even the people. But you know what? People in the South had an understanding that you could make a way out of no way, and that's how they survived.”

“I was working with C. L. R. James; I believed in Marxist ideas about the labor and movement and the workers being the secret to the future. And I learned differently just by being in Detroit and being married to Jimmy Boggs.”

“I recall the night that President McKinley died. I was working at the time at a theatre in St. Louis. The oppressive feeling was in the air. I could not make the people laugh.”

“I've always told him, 'hey B.J., you're so good on the ground, find an older Brazilian that's not going to have'... typically Brazilians don't have the best cardio, 'find an old Brazilian who's not in shape who's going to want to be on the ground, and kind of get your hand in the air, go out that way.'”

“With 'Honeymoon,' it was so intimate, and we literally shot it in something like 20, 24 days. Everything was very rapid and very fast, and so all of us submerged into the deep end and only really came up for air once we had wrapped.”