Kwame Kilpatrick
Kwame Kilpatrick
Kwame Malik Kilpatrickis a former Michigan state representative and Democratic mayor of Detroit. He resigned as mayor after being convicted on felony counts, including perjury and obstruction of justice. Kilpatrick was sentenced to four months in jail after pleading guilty, and was released on probation after serving 99 days. On May 25, 2010, he was sentenced to 18 months to 5 years in state prison for violating his probation, and served time at the Oaks Correctional Facility in northwest Michigan...
spirit ifs hard
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 free, it's hard.
brother office political
We do need brothers and sisters to go into elected offices and political offices and do that, but my spirit is telling me something different. Because you are a Democrat or Republican you have to do this but you can't do that and so it's somewhat limiting in what you can actually do and I've done that.
strong brother couple
I've been mayor so I believe there is something else for me. I don't know what that is yet, but I definitely have a testimony now brother! As far as talking to young couples, talking to brothers who are strong, they have it going on, they know exactly what they want to do, how they want to do it but they don't have any God in their life. They don't really move by a spirit. They are not really connected to the community. There is a testimony in here somewhere that I think I can share but I don't know.
kids home everyday
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 a part of.
running way surrender
When you are going through something like compaign run nothing happens without Allah's permission. So a lot of the times you just have to surrender to his will and learning how to surrender was a major thing for me, getting me out of the way, surrendering to the will of God.
character sometimes handle
Sometimes your gift takes you to a place that your character is not prepared to handle.
school character issues
Character issues such as drug abuse are not exclusive to Detroit Public Schools. My reference to substance abuse, not intended to focus on any particular school district, was simply used to illustrate this position.
flying firsts building
I was building the plane while flying it in the first term,
men islands personality
Personality is a person among persons. There is no personality of one man on a desert island.
help needed region solve state strong
You've got to help me solve those problems, ... We need each other in this city, in this region and in this state more than we've ever needed each other before. But the region can only be strong if you have a strong Detroit.