Riddick Bowe Quotes

The thing that really struck me when I went to junior high was class. I grew up on a pretty poor street, but the school district I was in included some fine neighborhoods - so I got to know a couple of the kids from those places and went to their houses and experienced such culture shock.

Being outside the candy store looking in is the state of people today. Whether you're in a Pakistani village watching somebody in a car drive by, or you're in the city of Lahore going to a restaurant and seeing somebody with a security entourage coming in... you're exposed to people with more.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

Growing up I always felt like I was living on the other side of the tracks. I knew the people on the other side had more resources, more money, happier families.

Everything in America is so stratified by class now. We have the 93rd level of income inequality in the world. You're already seeing highway lanes that are for pay and ones that aren't.

All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.

The wall between rich and poor is a wall of glass which all can see.

The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

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.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

The rich are not a contented tribe. The demands from others to share their wealth become so tiresome, so insistent, they often decide they must insulate themselves. Insulation eventually breeds a mild form of paranoia.

We're running out of rich people in this country.

Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged.

The reality in the neighborhood that I live in is: if I don't constantly reconcile what I have against what other people don't, either I need to leave and be around other people who have what I have, or I'm constantly engaged in this kind of dynamic flow of opportunity and sharing.

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

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that you can't have what somebody else does.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

Many times, people attack the well-to-do people. They see an opportunity.

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?

It seems to me that most people are interested in reading about characters who are richer than they are.

Better educated than wealthy

The central issue of our time remains the fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer.