Aspect Quote by Henry Louis Gates

Look, the Black community is diverse. We have generational divides. We have class divides. We have parts of the Black community that are fairly…

— Maya Wiley

The black community now in many ways divided itself the way the larger white community divides itself, over class issues. And that race is…

— Ed Smith

There's a class divide in black America that doesn't seem to trouble black Americans so much, but whites use it and exploit it. The…

— Darryl Pinckney

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

— Constance Baker Motley

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

We can't talk about the black community. It's no longer a homogeneous community; it was never a homogeneous community.

— Angela Davis

The black community is broken up in general.

— Candace Owens

There were class differences among black people then and there are class differences among black people now. There is still an assumption among many…

— Ayana Mathis

Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives…

— Henry Louis Gates

Race and class reinforce one another in housing. Our America Divided story, "A House Divided," shows that racist discrimination in housing is alive and…

— Solly Granatstein

I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.

— Angela Davis

And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this…

— Angela Davis