Being Quote by Ray Charles

What, in the name of common-sense, had I to do with any better society than I had always lived in?

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.

— Mike Tyson

As you know, I'm a black girl out of the projects of New York City, raised in a single parent home because my parents…

— Kelly Price

I'm from a pretty working-class background, and I really worked hard in my life to eradicate those parts of myself that were stupidly trapped…

— George Saunders

I wasn't brought up as a society girl to go to balls and be a debutante and marry the social set and money and…

— Lauren Bacall

I was raised in a group home for 14 years, so I was a beneficiary of philanthropy. I didn't have a family. The nameless,…

— Darell Hammond

For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.

— Zong Qinghou

In the world I lived in, the world of human people, there were ties and debts and consequences and good deeds. That was what…

— Charlaine Harris

Even if you have something that you can contribute to society, very often society doesn't view you that way. Because when you are The…

— Joe Morton

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

I feel that I was a useful contributor to society, and that I couldn't be a contributor to society in any other way.

— Sinead O'Connor

I thought society would do the right thing. Now I look around and I think -- society never does the right thing. Sometimes people…

— Christina Dodd