Black Quote by Dov Davidoff

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

— Constance Baker Motley

Poor communities, frequently communities of color but not exclusively, suffer disproportionately. If you look at where our industrialized facilities tend to be located, they're…

— Carol Browner

Atlanta's a good example of a city that's quite sprawling, where there's a sharp division between where blacks and whites live, between where low-income…

— Raj Chetty

“Is distinctive black culture the cause of economic disparity between whites and blacks or merely the reflection of it?”

— Steven D. Levitt

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

I think it is important to acknowledge the extent to which the black middle class tends to rely on a kind of imagined struggle…

— Angela Davis

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

You can't make a direct comparison between middle-class African Americans and middle-class white Americans, affluent African Americans and affluent white Americans. The amount of…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“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

I don't think that the objective of the American negro is white middle-class values because what are white middle-class values?

— Malcolm X

Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.

— Gary Locke

When one deals with urban issues, one never deals with clear black-and-white issues; they're all trade-offs. Important urban issues present conflicting values.

— Cesar Pelli