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There is no such thing as a black middle class.

— H. Rap Brown

There is still an assumption among many people that to be black is to be lower class. In the last fifteen to twenty years,…

— Ayana Mathis

There is a forgotten black middle class in America - a group which is huge but underrepresented in the media and in art. It's…

— Ayana Mathis

The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.

— Constance Baker Motley

Actually we've had a black bourgeoisie or the makings of a black bourgeoisie for many more decades.In a sense the quest for the emancipation…

— Angela Davis

Black people are not often considered mainstream.

— Lamman Rucker

Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or…

— Henry Louis Gates

If you see black people being portrayed in this one way well then, when you see a black person in real life, you're going…

— KiKi Layne

There's not too many rich black people in this world.

— Barry Bonds

We don't often truly consider the embeddedness of black folks in the American imaginary. America would not exist in its current form without the…

— RaMell Ross

When I sat in rooms with middle-aged white men, I heard them speaking like young black men in America. They had been solidly middle…

— Lynn Nottage

I think that for the most part, black people specifically have sort of been used as props in TV shows as a way to…

— Lena Waithe