Georgia Holt Quotes

The fact is, working stiffs with few opportunities and scant education are generally too busy getting by to engage in revolutionary projects to remake society. And history, in fact, shows us that terrorism is generally a bourgeois endeavor.

I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.

I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.

High school wasn't so bad though because, by then, I had worked out that there were far more nerdy kids and poor kids than there were rich, popular kids, so, at the very least, we had them outnumbered.

I'm a product of public housing. My parents grew up poor, but their dream was to own a home.

My wife thinks I have an obsession with social class. So I guess I have an obsession with social class. It probably stems from feeling like an outcast.

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

You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes.

If you have extremes of haves and have-nots where the gap keeps growing, the have-nots group together and create social disorder, as they can't see a way out of their situation.

The poor get bored the same as the rest of us. Their happiness might be as important to them as their health.

We were very poor and my family lost everything during the war - our home and our identity. But I'm a believer in luck and think the social conditions you're born into provide the opportunity for you to prove your luck. And I suppose I've been lucky.

I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.

I grew up in a council house in a poor Scottish town. I came of age during the recession of the mid-1980s when unemployment in my area reached 40 per cent.

Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.

I've always wanted to write about the other side of the tracks, the have-nots, maybe because that's who I was.

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York.

I am from the working class. I am now what I was then. No amount of balsamic vinegar and Prada handbags could make me forget what it was like to be poor.

There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be.

When you first get fame, you're so insecure that you just become a ding dong.

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

I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.

I'm working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have struggled.

I didn't have the welfare. I didn't have the proper education. I didn't have these things. That's why it's almost like a complex in me that I want to explode myself in my films.

At Ellis Island, I mean, you didn't go there if you arrived in first class. It was only the poorest, the people in the worst shape.