Friendship Quote by Mary Pattillo

“I’m not arguing that we deserve more sympathy than other folks. This is not a story about why white people have more to complain…

— J.D. Vance

“The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends…

— Dorothy Allison

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

— Constance Baker Motley

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

Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind.…

— Nikki Giovanni

“Americans are generally incapable of perceiving class differences among blacks and are quick to ascribe antisocial underclass behavior to all African Americans.”

— Leon Dash

“It was once said that the poor are 'constantly exposed to evidence of their own irrelevance.' Especially for poor African-American families - who live…

— Matthew Desmond

I don't want our white working class sisters and brothers to feel as though their pain is not important because it is. But at…

— Nina Turner

Among liberals and Democrats, there is this notion that the poor - especially the black poor - can do no wrong. If you criticize…

— Gregory Kane

“Black behavior—not the wrenching housing and economic discrimination—was blamed for these impoverished Black enclaves.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Racial attacks on liberalism shifted the enemy of the middle class from big money to lazy minorities, and transmuted economic programs that helped to…

— Ian Haney López

“So many black families spend all of their time trying to fix the problems of the past. That is the curse of being black…

— Trevor Noah