Rita Mae Brown Quotes

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

I am not biased against the rich because they are rich, but the most lively people are those without money who would like to have some

The only people who really worry about money are the very poor and the very rich.

The majority decision constitutionalizes a distinction between a red leather pouch and a paper bag that is necessarily based at least in some part on economic and class differences and perceptions.

The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.

Class is a way of looking at society that divides people into different categories based on how much money they're willing to make.

American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.

You can't define what's middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor.

Segregation by race has declined gradually since 1970, but separation by income has grown steadily in the same period.

That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation.

Most Americans seem to be stuck in the economic strata to which they were born.

There's more poor people in this country than there are rich, and I stick up for the poor people.

We decided in the mid-1960s that all poor people are the same: they are all poor. We know they're poor because we have defined a poverty line, and they're all underneath it.

America is divided by economics, and we as Americans, we've got to do a better job of supporting poor people.

The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.

One function of the income gap is that the people at the top of the heap have a hard time even seeing those at the bottom. They practically need a telescope. The pharaohs of ancient Egypt probably didn't was a lot of time thinking about the people who build their pyramids, either.

Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.

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

In Caribbean there is no middle class: you're either rich or you're poor. And the ladder to success is not really a ladder, it's a chain; once you reach a certain level, you can't go back and you can only keep going forward.

Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is.

Even when uttered by Democrats, "middle class" often sounds like a mealymouthed way of saying, "Us, and not them," where "them" includes poor people, snake handlers and those with pierced tongues.

The middle class in America is at a tipping point. It will not last another generation if we don't boldly change course now.

When I look out [the window] at the big houses on either side of the road, it's obvious we've entered the rich side of town. Poor people don't post signs like NO TRESPASSING, PRIVATE DRIVE, PRIVATE PROPERTY, MONITORED BY CAMERA SURVEILLANCE. I should know because I've been poor my entire life, and the only person I know who ever posted a sign like these is my friend...and he actually stole the sign off a rich guy's yard.

For most practical purposes Tarbean had two pieces: Waterside and Hillside. Waterside is where people are poor. That makes them beggars, thieves, and whores. Hillside is where people are rich. That makes them solicitors, politicians, and courtesans.