Charlie LeDuff

Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus: We hope for better things; it shall rise from the ashes.

— Charlie LeDuff

Some people are doomed from birth because their environment is so toxic.

— Charlie LeDuff

But wanderlust is like a pretty girl - you wake up one morning, find she's grown old and decide that either you're…

— Charlie LeDuff

And then I settled into the most natural thing for a man with no real talents. Journalism.

— Charlie LeDuff

We are born to a time. What you do with it is on you. Do the best you can. Try to be…

— Charlie LeDuff

There's not much a newspaper reporter can do about dead men. But a newspaper reporter and a cop and a judge can…

— Charlie LeDuff

At the end of the day, the Detroiter may be the most important American there is because no one knows better than…

— Charlie LeDuff

Go ahead and laugh at Detroit. Because you are laughing at yourself.

— Charlie LeDuff

New York is a glamorous city, constituted mostly of nobodies. They crave the lights, and if they tell you differently, they're lying.…

— Charlie LeDuff

Since its founding, Detroit has been a place of perpetual flames. Three times the city has suffered race riots and three times…

— Charlie LeDuff

What our generation failed to learn was the nobility of work. An honest day's labor. The worthiness of the man in the…

— Charlie LeDuff