Middle class Quote by Rick Famuyiwa

I grew up in a very middle-class background. It was a place where if you wanted something, you worked to get it.

— Jared Isaacman

To me, entertainment is really the new plantation. It's the new sugar, the new cotton, that black people work for somebody else to be…

— Haile Gerima

I have a little bit of a pet peeve about how the middle class is depicted in movies. I feel like they tend to…

— Greg Mottola

“A shift in class values occurs in black life when integration comes and with it the idea that money is the primary marker of…

— bell hooks

I grew up on what everybody called a plantation - but believe me, it wasn't a plantation. It was just an old farm. I…

— Sam Phillips

I grew up sort of middle class, safe and suburban.

— Colum McCann

In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they…

— Anonymous

When my family first moved to Hempstead in the 1960s, they were one of the first black families. It used to be an all-white…

— Prodigy

Forest Hills was a middle-class neighborhood filled with snobby rich people and their screaming brats.

— Joey Ramone

I grew up upper middle class.

— Lil Dicky

There are huge divorces and divides and chasms in black America between the have-gots and the have-nots, between the monied and the poor, between…

— Michael Eric Dyson

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

— Constance Baker Motley