I heard somebody say that you can't judge a tree by the bark it wears but by the fruit it bears.

- Kwame Kilpatrick

Personality is a person among persons. There is no personality of one man on a desert island.

- Kwame Kilpatrick

Sometimes your gift takes you to a place that your character is not prepared to handle.

- Kwame Kilpatrick

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 m…

- Kwame Kilpatrick

My kids want to go back to Detroit everyday, that's their home. They want to be there. But Detroit is going through something that I don't want to be…

- Kwame Kilpatrick

I was building the plane while flying it in the first term.

- Kwame Kilpatrick

I learned that you can go after things before you are ready and so if you are going after it, you need to make sure that your spirit is ready. I lear…

- Kwame Kilpatrick

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

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 f…

- Kwame Kilpatrick