Spike Lee Quotes

My adopted parents were able to pay for me to go to a private school. So I had it better than most people.

I'm fortunate enough that my dad was well-off, my family was well-off, so we're able to go to private schools and stuff like that.

Stupidity is a luxury and you will find time and time and time and again that those who are overwhelmingly on the left are those who can afford to be.

I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades.

The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than the less affluent.

John Kerry only went to prep schools because he had an aunt who had the money to pay for his way into those prep schools.

I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that.

I was in a high school where everybody was a click better off.

Better educated than wealthy

If you doubt that we live in a winner-take-all economy and that education is the trump card, consider the vast amounts the affluent spend to teach their offspring.

You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it.

I come from money. I'm not going to deny that.

I come from a very affluent family. I have been educated in one of the finest institutions of the world. Money was never a factor in my life: by the grace of God, I was blessed with a golden spoon.

My parents are very successful, and I went to the nicest private school in the Seattle area. I was lucky. But I never had any trust funds of any kind, though my dad did pay my tuition at Harvard, which was quite expensive.

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

Benefitting from a job bubble is not only a first world problem, it's an upper-class-educated-lucky-to-be-in-the-right-industry-at-the-right-time kind of first world problem.

My kids are being raised in a much more affluent environment than was mine. My wife and I talk about that all the time because neither of us had this kind of experience.

I love Romney. It is not his fault that he is the son of a successful governor and makes $20 million a year.

I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.

A rich man can afford to be generous to many.

Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.

Let me explain something: I'm not incredibly rich.

We may feel the pain of falling back from a level of affluence to which we have grown accustomed, but most people in developed countries are still, by historical standards, extraordinarily well off.

My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.

I'm not a trust-fund type.