Brian Azzarello Quotes

I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.

In the early '90s, New York was a pretty depressing place.

When I was growing up there, North Gulfport was referred to as 'Little Vietnam' because of the perception of crime and depravity within its borders - as if its denizens were simply a congregation of the downtrodden.

Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.

I grew up in the city of Detroit, where things were just bad.

[Chicago]: This vicious, stinking zoo, this mean-grinning, mace-smelling boneyard of a city: an elegant rockpile of a monument to everything cruel and stupid and corrupt in the human spirit.

We can solve a housing problem or we can try to solve a racial problem. But we cannot combine the two.

In all the world there is not, perhaps, now concentrated in any single spot so much swindling and villainy, so much foul disease, such a hideous dung-heap of moral and physical abomination as in the scene of this far-famed undertaking of nineteenth-century engineering

The presence of the black man in this country is a curse to both races. It keeps the white man lying, stealing, misrepresenting, and the black man abusing, vilifying, and cursing, and neither white nor black can be Christian. I pray God you will continue in the great work in which you are engaged, and move this country to help the negro to emigrate to the land of his ancestors.

The tendency is away from the farm and away from the rural districts ; the trend is toward the city, where the needy congregate and where crime becomes organized and where the Republic is stabbed

I'm from Detroit. I was from a kind of violent neighbourhood.

I feel no compunction to defend L.A. People criticize it, and for the most part, it's well-founded.

Chicago is my absolute favorite city. It's clean, the food is amazing, and everyone is so warm and welcoming. We've gotten really, really used to it and really excited about our second home in Chicago.

Some places you play in America, it's like 'On the Waterfront.'

Some white Milwakeeans still referred to the North side as 'the cire', as they did in the 1960s, and if they ventured into it, they saw street after street of sagging duplexes, fading murals, twenty-four hour daycares, and corner stores with 'WIC Accepted Here' signs.

I love New York, but I don't like how it smells like hot pee and garbage in the summer. I feel like Chicago isn't that way. Maybe I'm just being romantic.

America's a gangbanger country. We got our gang, and everything else is irrelevant.

Chicago's always a friendly place to me.

For a long time a lot of people thought New Orleans wasn't a safe place and that it was very ratchet.

Chicago is everything to me.

'Cartel Land' explores what happens when - in a Mexican society without order, law or security - vendettas, terror, and corruption go hand in hand with the pursuit of a better world.

Our metropolises are blighted by two problems: a lack of public transport and a lack of public loos.

I've been through all the bad parts of the streets.

I feel like I have gotten to know Chicago pretty well, and every time I come here I have a really good response.

I lived in a favela.