Wilfried Zaha Quotes

It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.

I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.

However democratic and egalitarian we kid ourselves into thinking society might be, I think that sense of entitlement operates as basically and viciously as it always did.

People don't find the personal lives of people with much, much more power than any celebrity would have - don't find their personal lives interesting.

What I have a problem with is money and name at the expense of talent and culture.

And understand: class differences will not save you.

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.

It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.

You know, I always say white is not a colour, white is an attitude, and if you haven't got trillions of dollars in the bank that you don't need, you can't be white.

The only way to be turned off to being famous is to be famous.

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.

Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.

Only the elites despise earning money.

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

Nigeria must be one of the very few countries in the world where a man’s source of wealth is of no concern to his neighbors, the public or the government. Once a man is able to dole out money, the churches pray for him, he collects chieftancy titles and hobnobs with those who govern. The message to those who have not made it is clear: just be rich, the ways and means are irrelevant

All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.

You [a country] cannot be rich, successful and powerful and still be loved, particularly be those who have little success, wealth or power.

I'm not interested in classes ... Far be it from me to foster inferiority complexes among the workers by trying to make them think they belong to some special class.

Water does tend to flow up hill toward money and power.

Tradition has it that whenever a group of people has tasted the lovely fruits of wealth, security, and prestige, it begins to find it more comfortable to believe in the obvious lie and accept that it alone is entitled to privilege.

Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.

There are certain people you're allowed to pick apart and certain people you're not.

I think our election proved to us that 'billionaire' is an incredibly magical word in our language in that people just defer to it. Donald Trump is not a billionaire, but he knew it was vital for him to be perceived as one.

Only if you were lucky to be born in the right class, the one Donald Trump was born in, then of course you have a beautiful view of the world. You find that everybody else is an imbecile, because he doesn't think like you, he doesn't dress like you, he doesn't have the same girl as you, etc. But I call that ignorance.