Awkwafina Quotes

I have a feeling that life as a billionaire in Silicon Valley is very different than the life that you or I would lead. Unless you're a billionaire; I don't know your financial situation.

We lived in a classless society. We'd spend a summer at Gore Vidal's house in Italy, but we were on and off welfare.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

Rich folks always talk hard times.

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

The competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.

It's quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place.

I bemoan the fact that all my famous friends have places in St. Bart's and I have to go to Montauk.

Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.

I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.

I'm ashamed to say that I'm from a very privileged background.

Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth.

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.

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.

The goatherds were the poorest people of Spain. Probably, they were the richest.

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.

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.

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

I can't believe we're being paid to live in New York.

The rich are few everywhere, the poor many.

The poor generally follow behavior patterns established by the rich.

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

People say law but they mean wealth.

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

one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.