America Quote by Craig Ferguson

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

— Bell Hooks

There is no such thing as talking about class without there being implications of the racial history of the United States. You just can't…

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

There is quite a lot of mutual misunderstanding between the upper middle class and the working class. Reviewing what's been said about the white…

— Timothy Noah

“Americans are generally incapable of perceiving class differences among blacks and are quick to ascribe antisocial underclass behavior to all African Americans.”

— Leon Dash

“Under the white population of the United States of America only the reactionary classes oppress the black population. Under no circumstance can they represent…

— Mao Zedong

The Republican base is now made up of religious and neoconservative ideologues, and the uneducated white underclass with a token person of color or…

— Frank Schaeffer

We were arguing about what was good to deal with making education fairer, diverse and more American. We were not arguing about where black…

— Chris Hayes

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

You have to live among rich liberals to understand what they're saying. You'll never believe what they mean by 'middle class.' They mean themselves.

— Joel Stein

Republicans are just rich, old, white people - that's all they are. You ever see the Republican National Convention? All white people - six…

— Andy Kindler

Imagine filling a college with the first 1,000 students to get perfect SATs. Whatever the racial composition of that class would be, the notion…

— Eric Liu

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