Black Quote by Constance Baker Motley

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

There is no such thing as a black middle class.

— H. Rap Brown

There are more differences between poor people than between middle-class people.

— Rita Mae Brown

The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty…

— Henry Louis Gates

What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people…

— Angela Davis

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

“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

Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind.…

— Nikki Giovanni

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

In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence.

— Henry Louis Gates

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

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