Bell Hooks Quotes

Money doesn't buy class.

The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

You can't buy class.

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.

Class is real. It can't be faked.

Language does not make one an elite.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.

My interest in society - at times so pronounced that the word 'snob' comes a little to mind - derives from the fact that I like an immense number of things which society, money, and position bring in their train: painting, tapestries, rare books, smart dresses, dances, gardens, country houses, correct cuisine, and pretty women.

Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.

Class is more important than a game.

I don't think because you have money you have taste... Education and money - this is quite rare. No?

For the lower classes it is economic. They need to work and appear proper, so they veil. By contrast, wealthier and more educated families frequently have histories in which mothers and aunts took off the veil more than 80 years ago.

You can’t be rich, strong, and loved, particularly by those who are not rich or strong.

This contempt for money is a trick developed by the rich to keep the poor without it.

I am a capitalist—a rich businessman and most of you are not.

The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction.

I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.

I learned early that class is universally admired.

People often think of America as a classless society, but, of course, that isn't true. Within immigrant communities, there's an enormous distinction of class, depending on who your parents are, and that kind of thing comes out really quick in things like marriage and interpersonal relationships.

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

Wherever the appearance of a conventional aristocracy exists in America, it must arise from wealth, as it cannot from birth. An aristocracy of mere wealth is vulgar everywhere. In a republic, it is vulgar in the extreme.

The rich are different from us.

Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants.