The legend lives on on this his 100th birthdate. Love'm or hate'm he was colorful and crusty.

Sampling from today's Freep:
Coleman A. Young-isms:

Warning: Explicit language.

On dreams:
"And we have to reach high. Maybe get knocked on our ass. And then get up and reach again."

On looking out for Number One:
"I never looked upon myself as a do-gooder because a do-gooder is someone who, out of a sense of noblesse oblige or some kind of shit like that, that reaches up and pulls some poor benighted sonofabitch and does good for him. What I've done is in my own self-interest. It serves to validate my own personal sense of worth and dignity as a black person, as a poor person, a person of working class origins."

On whether Gov. James Blanchard might grow in office, as former Gov. William Milliken did [[1986)
"You don't grow balls. Either you got 'em or you don't."

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