American life Quote by Richard Russo

Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my identity.

— David Lindsay-Abaire

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

— Mao Zedong

Themes around education and learning run through my work.

— David Almond

An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days. 'My thesis…

— Christopher Hitchens

Class is really interesting to me, maybe because I'm from England where there is a pretty hideous, deep-rooted obsession with class. I don't like…

— Andrew Haigh

I'm definitely interested in class and how it represents itself in our culture, and how, depending on where you live, your life can be…

— Nia DaCosta

And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.

— Anne Tyler

“What is key to America's understanding of class is the persistent belief - despite all evidence to the contrary - that anyone, with the…

— Michelle Alexander

There's no class in life, but there is a lesson in every minute of it.

— Anonymous

I think the identity politics that have been played, particularly the class-warfare version of identity politics that has been played, has put America into…

— Paul Ryan

Right now, for many Americans, class is being foregrounded like never before because of the economic situation. It doesn't mean that race doesn't matter,…

— Bell Hooks

Class is rarely talked about in the United States; nowhere is there a more intense silence about the reality of class differences than in…

— Bell Hooks