About Quote by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

America is a country that would rather talk about race than class.

— Bell Hooks

There's this false notion that you have to separate and choose between issues of class and issues of race. What people do when they…

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Class is the most taboo subject in America. The American media would rather talk about race or perversion or anything else considered taboo before…

— Jim Shepard

Talking about class and identity can be as divisive as talking about race and racism.

— David Olusoga

As much as racism bleeds America, we need to understand that classism is the real issue.

— Immortal Technique

Class is rarely talked about in the United States; nowhere is there a more intense silence about the reality of class differences than in…

— Bell Hooks

A lot of the things that we think of as being racial differences are really class differences in America.

— Terry Gross

And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.

— Anne Tyler

And so class will some day supplant race in world affairs. Race war will then be merely a side-show to the gigantic class war…

— Ralph Bunche

I'm just seeing as I grow older, and hopefully wiser, that a lot of things I see from a race perspective are class problems…

— Killer Mike

There were class differences among black people then and there are class differences among black people now. There is still an assumption among many…

— Ayana Mathis

You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand.

— Alphonso Jackson