Quotes About Class

I did study with Anne Carson briefly in Michigan. She taught there, and that's where I first encountered her, in her class.

The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.

I often ask people in the audience what their favourite cheese is. Anything less than Gruyere and they're just not middle class!

I was fed up with the situation I found myself in in the 1960s. I didn't like being a barrister's wife and going out to dinner with other professional people and dealing with middle class life. It seemed claustrophobic.

Since I still think of myself as a middle class guy, people get to see that side of me in films like 'Middle Class Abbayi.'

It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.

There is no such thing as a black middle class.

There's no such thing as median income; there's a curve, and it really matters what side of the curve you're on. There's no such thing as the middle class. It's absolutely vanishing.

I just think the whole discussion of class is wrong. It's not what we do here in America. I don't think there's anything called 'middle class values' that are different from the values of other people in this country.

You can only choose between rich and poor. The middle class is gone.

My composition often goes toward the black middle class or the black super-wealthy or strong historical black figures.

I'm from a middle class family, but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really run around with rich people.

We were working class, and you don't lose that. Later on, I bolted on media middle class... and now people like me are in the House of Lords.

I find the middle classes kind of boring. The middle class has kind of been beaten like a dead horse by fictional writers. It's old news, and literature is supposed to bring new news, and for me, I feel I have to go as far out as I can to try and tell the kind of stories I want to tell.

I was as middle class as it comes.

I don't think I could write a good play if I was setting out to write about the death of the American middle class.

The middle class is a group defined by more than just money: it also leans on credentials, education, aspirations, assets, and, of course, household income.

When I ascended from the depths of the working class to the middle class, the higher I got, the more dishonesty I found.

The beauty of not growing up middle class is that you don't think like the middle class. You don't have anything to protect, you know what I mean?

Certainly Roseanne Barr has power, but it seems like it's more acceptable to be heavy if you're lower middle class and blue collar.

People think I am arrogant, I don't think so. I cannot be arrogant at all... I am basically a lower middle class person by heart.

Both in Raleigh and in Washington, middle class shouldn't mean second class.

I came from a very middle-class family and had to take out loans to go to college. I was really shocked when I arrived at school at the difference between those who had money and those who didn't.

I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.