Brother Quote by Jacqueline Woodson

I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the…

— Matt Damon

I led a comfortable life, went to good schools and was privileged in many ways, but my father worked hard. We never considered ourselves…

— Anonymous

Socially, I never belonged to any class, rich or poor. To the rich I was poor, and to the poor I was poor pretending…

— John O'Hara

On both sides of my family, my grandparents grew up in total poverty and came to California during the Great Depression. The only way…

— Katie Hill

I grew up poor, black, and working class.

— Roger Ross Williams

My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.

— Alice Walker

I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor.…

— Philip Zimbardo

All my life I've been prejudiced against wealthy people.

— Ethel Waters

Having a biracial mother who had these really eclectic interests that were partly capable because she was so fair-skinned, and having my grandma surround…

— RaMell Ross

Of course I had the parallel of having the early years of my life being spent during apartheid, and then having a lot of…

— St. Lucia

Poverty dictated my childhood. But there were benefits as well: I became independent, more mature than my peers, and I realized that money is…

— Moon Jae-in

History and socio-economic inequality and all those things had, like, borne down upon my family and my community and really sort of narrowed our…

— Jesmyn Ward