COLEMAN A. YOUNG (1918 - 1997)

 

A few choice words

Coleman Young considered cussing an art form.

"I'm smiling all the time. That doesn't mean a goddamned thing except I think people who go around solemn-faced and quoting the Bible are full of shit."

"Racism is something like high blood pressure -- the person that has it doesn't know he has it until he drops over with a goddamned stroke."

"You don't grow balls. Either you got 'em or you don't."

'That sonofabitch Waldmeir followed me down to Jamaica. All I can say is I wish that motherfucker had caught me. I'm mayor of nothing down there. It would be just two crazy Americans fighting in the alley."

"I think Ed Koch is full of shit."

And, finally, to reporters via closed-circuit TV from Hawaii: "Aloha, motherfuckers."

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Source: The Quotations of Mayor Coleman A. Young