Black Quote by Henry Louis Gates

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

— Constance Baker Motley

And yet today, half of all black children are aborted. Far more of the African-American community is being devastated by the policies of today…

— Trent Franks

Rich kids work hard. Most black kids aren't working hard enough.

— Freeman A. Hrabowski III

That divide between the rich and poor is so crazy, because even white kids are suffering now.

— M.I.A

There's no question that the black middle class has benefited greatly by the civil rights movement. But there is a large black underclass that…

— Betty Friedan

There is no such thing as a black middle class.

— H. Rap Brown

“number of working-class whites in high-poverty neighborhoods is growing. In 1970, 25 percent of white children lived in a neighborhood with poverty”

— J.D. Vance

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

African-Americans now 45 percent poverty in the inner cities. The education is a disaster. Jobs are essentially nonexistent.

— Donald Trump

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

At present, black children are more segregated in their public schools than at any time since 1968. In the inner-city schools I visit, minority…

— Jonathan Kozol

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