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Class Quotes by Dorothy Allison
- Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.
- One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
- The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on…
- And of course these days I feel like there is a nation of us - displaced southerners and children of the working class. We listen…
- My son, Wolf, was born when I was past 40 and the author of a best-selling novel. That means he has grown up a middle-class…
More Class Quotes
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight,… — Hank Azaria
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and… — Saint Augustine
- There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some… — Alfred Austin