Quick bites from news and commentary in recent days include these tasty morsels:
"Wasn't the ‘poetry' of Edgar Guest a bad enough sin?"
-- Robert Del Valle, Deadline Detroit reader commenting on Freep racism in 19th century
"Detroitcantwait.com is the official website of shut-up-we're-running-things-now."
-- Neal Rubin, Detroit News columnist, on state website about Detroit's financial emergency
"If a white individual comes in to become that EM, I think it would then create a major upheaval because then we'll have the impression that 'Ole Massa' has come in to takeover the plantation."
-- Rev. Kenneth James Flowers, Greater New Mt. Moriah Missionary Baptist Church in Detroit, quoted by WXYZ
"As 60-plus-years Detroit resident, I hate having emergency manager, but hate worse circumstances that have us in this crisis. WHATEVER HELPS!!"
-- Mike O'Hara, Detroit News sports columnist, in Friday tweet
"It’s necessary, at times, to separate LeDuff’s reporting from his writing. His reporting is immersive, patient. His writing just about bursts from revved-up impatience."
-- Paul Clemens, author, reviewing Charlie LeDuff's new book, "Detroit: An American Autopsy"
"Just watching and waiting. I'm peaceful. Ready to start my life all over again. #victory."
-- Kwame Kilpatrick, tweeting Thursday after jury adjourned on Day 8 of deliberations
"If anyone tells you a C-section is no biggie, punch them hard."
-- Nikki Little, Bingham Farms PR exec, in blog post after delivering twin boys
"Time to serve the people, or as the great Detroit philosopher Monica Conyers once sang, ‘Do your job.’"
-- Charlie LeDuff, Fox 2 reporter, on often-absent Judge Cylenthia Miller of Detroit’s 36th District Court
