African american Quote by Ta-Nehisi Coates

There are more differences between poor people than between middle-class people.

— Rita Mae Brown

Poor white people and poor black people just don't know how much they have in common. Rich people don't give a damn about either…

— Charles Barkley

I don't think that the objective of the American negro is white middle-class values because what are white middle-class values?

— Malcolm X

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

— Constance Baker Motley

What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people…

— Angela Davis

Whites have more than eleven times the net worth or wealth of African Americans. They make greater salaries. Our unemployment rate is twice theirs.…

— Randall Robinson

“There is no group of Americans more pessimistic than working-class whites. Well over half of blacks, Latinos, and college-educated whites expect that their children…

— J.D. Vance

In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.

— Ferdinand Mount

“Partly, it is because we tend to think of black and white poverty differently. Sandra Barnes (2005, 17), citing census data from 2000, notes…

— Karl Alexander

Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or…

— Henry Louis Gates

Despite all of the civil rights gains of the past several decades, when it comes to economic opportunity, African Americans and Latinos still experience…

— Sasha Abramsky

And what makes the whites who have these middle-class values have those values? Where did they get it? They didn't have these same values…

— Malcolm X