“Detroit is full of talent.” — Martha Reeves Quote

Detroit is full of talent.

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.

You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too.

I pray for miracles. I have always found prayer to bring quick results.

God uses singers in a mighty way, and I am grateful.

Let me say this and be very clear about it: there's nothing quite like your relationship in your first job with your best player. When I was in Detroit, Jerry Stackhouse and I were very close.

The experience of growing up in Detroit helped give me the character necessary to push myself as hard as I did as a football player.

By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.

Detroit in its heyday - let's say, 1920s to the '60s - was never a huge downtown-living thing. People lived in the neighborhoods.

I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.