Black and white Quote by Charles Barkley

Poor white people and poor black people just don't know how much they have in common. Rich people don't give a damn about either…

— Charles Barkley

“Millions of Americans instinctively associate “poverty” with “black.”

— David Cay Johnston

Sometimes you do not see white faces when you think of poverty. That leads to lots of stigmas, systemic racism and all that.

— Stephanie Land

That divide between the rich and poor is so crazy, because even white kids are suffering now.

— M.I.A

Nobody talks about the poor. Everybody talks about the middle class and just kinda want to ignore that the poor exist. And you cannot…

— Nina Turner

Economic justice is not just something blacks are crying out for; whites are desperate for it, too. But in the public imagination, the face…

— Darryl Pinckney

When will we address the fact that rich, white people think they know what's in the best interest of children of African-Americans and Latinos…

— Karen Lewis

Finally I got to the point where I said, I'd like to start a project where we can actually talk about race and poverty,…

— Bryan Stevenson

When black men become millionaires and can buy expensive homes for their families, it infuriates people who cherish the social construct where white people…

— Eniola Aluko

Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

— H. Rap Brown

I don't want our white working class sisters and brothers to feel as though their pain is not important because it is. But at…

— Nina Turner

“The black middle class displays a torn ambivalence toward the situation of the black poor. They sympathetically recognize the harms of racism and targeted…

— Mary Pattillo