Marlon Wayans Quotes

Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.

My parents worked their tails off, but we weren't the poorest people in town. Some people I went to school with, you could tell they were dirt poor.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

I do think that there is both a very powerful sense of entitlement and a kind of bubble of wealth which makes it hard for the people at the very top to understand the travails of the middle class.

In America, the 1 percent and the 10 percent are doing just fine, but the people who are bearing the brunt of this economy are the ones who suffer.

Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.

In a city like New York, you're aware of the rich and poor.

The way corporate media likes to portray America is as a homogenous whole that high-five's each other at the Super Bowl. But what we have is a grotesque disparity between the rich and poor that is only getting wider.

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.

In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there.

An imbalance between the rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

Republicans look after the rich, and Democrats focus on the needs of the middle class. Neither of them looks after the poor.

Never forget that there are rich people in poor countries and poor people in rich countries.

Los Angeles cannot permanently exist as two cities—one amazingly prosperous, the other increasingly poorer in substance and in hope.... This city, like the nation, is living with an increasing polarization of incomes. A rising tide no longer lifts all boats.

The poor generally follow behavior patterns established by the rich.

There are only two families in the whole world, my old grandmother used to say, The Haves and the Have-Nots.

I'm tired of people on trust funds telling people on food stamps how to live.

Poverty divide not only nations but societies within nations.

When I was a young fellow I was very much disturbed by there being some people with lots of money and lots of people with no money.

There are but two families in the world … The haves and the have-nots.

If Eleanor Roosevelt has her way, how are we going to tell the rich from the poor?

As income inequality increases, social mobility falls.

No society is healthy when the gap between the rich and the poor is growing.