Richard Russo Quotes

Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorizing them in terms of class; I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder.

My parents were decent, aspirant first-generation middle class. They read 'Reader's Digest', listened to classical music; my grandparents had a bust of Stalin on the mantelpiece. The kids of that generation were terrified of being below par, class-wise.

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

I didn't necessarily grow up in a trailer park, but there is a brief part of that in my life. So I can make fun of it a little bit. I'm not too much of an outsider, where I'm just making fun of someone.

There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.

Class is real. It can't be faked.

If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.

I'm not from the working class. I'm from the criminal class.

I don't think there's a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and people don't think of it as being class literature.

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

We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.

Keep up the middle class; lop off aristocracy on the one hand, and a rabble at the other; let the middle class ... have the power.

There are no human beings whose sense of social identity is fully and exclusively given for themselves by the membership of the working (or any other) class

You can't kid the public. When they see me they see I'm just a kid off a council estate - no more, no less.

We have a myth of the classless society. You won't hear an American politician apart from Bernie Sanders talk about the working class. We are all middle class, apparently.

There once was this powerful, both capital and political, class who cared about supporting and affirming a solid middle class in this country.

Football is generally a working-class sport, and because of the fact I went to private school and was brought up slightly differently, people think that makes me a different person.

'High Cotton' is more conscious of class than 'Black Deutschland.'

Working-class people don't tend to be wooed by celebrity.

We don't use the term 'working class' here because it's a taboo term. You're supposed to say 'middle class,' because it helps diminish the understanding that there's a class war going on.

I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.

Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.

Class still matters in Britain today.

I'm a Conservative, but I talk for the ordinary working classes. I get on with the boys at the pub, but I can also mix with Prince Andrew. I understand both levels. The toffs haven't lived in council estates; they've just known big mansions. How can they understand how the postman feels? I would never say no to becoming an MP.

If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count.