America Quote by Gil Scott-Heron

I think class is still an issue in this country.

— Angela Rayner

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

— Bell Hooks

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

Color categories are on steroids in Latin America. I find that fascinating. It's very difficult for Americans, particularly African-Americans to understand or sympathize with.

— Henry Louis Gates

Colorism is unfortunately still an issue today.

— Bill Duke

There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.

— Leslie Fiedler

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

If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US.

— Jim Henson

As much as racism bleeds America, we need to understand that classism is the real issue.

— Immortal Technique

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

You have to understand that a lot of the working class is not white.

— David Remnick

A lot of the things that we think of as being racial differences are really class differences in America.

— Terry Gross