Marriage Quote by Min Jin Lee

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

— Bell Hooks

When you're an immigrant family, the upbringing, the mentality and the opportunities are all different.

— Kelvin Gastelum

Most Americans, I don't think, could fathom the society that I grew up in. It is a completely different philosophy from America's. You are…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

America is a construction of mind, not of race or inherited class or ancestral territory.

— Robert Hughes

America is about class. To pretend that it isn't is very ignorant. No society has ever existed without some kind of a ruling class.

— Lewis H. Lapham

When I think of my work, I'm aware that I'm American and African at all points and times. And without a doubt, my experience…

— Dinaw Mengestu

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men…

— Harry S Truman

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

— Terry Gross

“You don’t understand the class structure of American society," said Smetana, "or you would not ask such a question. In the United States, the…

— Anonymous

It's true: one of the things that I've always thought about American society is that you never get the sort of natural politicisation of…

— Peter Carey

Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a…

— Anne Perry

In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were diplomatic kids…

— Joel Kinnaman