Lynda Barry Quotes

There was a time in my life when I was going in and out of houses that were extraordinarily different - from a working-class terrace in Northampton to the homes of friends who were really very wealthy. It was quite an odd position to be in, I realise looking back, and quite a nice one.

The trouble is not that schools don't work; they do. They're excellent machines for achieving historically accepted purposes. In suburban schools are children of the rich, who grow up to privilege and anesthetic oblivion to pain - and who then use the servants produced by ghetto schools.

As a kid, my dad moved us to the upper town, which was in a higher class of people, and we would see the lower town below. Every day, we could see where we came from and where we were now.

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

Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.

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 the working class has been told to do, the rich do not do. That is my message.

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

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

You can have class in the ghetto and trash in the White House.

All of us kids in the neighbourhood had to go shoeless for the same reason - all except the landlord's son, because his father had more income.

Cricket was deemed too posh where I came from, and I'd never have risked walking home through the estates in my whites. My club played some of the posh schools. I'd have the cheapest kit, but I loved those games. As soon as the posh lads opened their mouths and you heard their accents, the stakes were raised.

I didn't have the clothes that a kid with a famous, rich dad would have. I didn't have the house. I didn't have the mannerisms. I didn't have the sense of entitlement. And I don't mean that in a bad way: I just - we didn't have the stuff.

Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

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

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

We live in a very unequal society.

The way corporate media likes to portray America is as a homogenous whole that high-five's each other at the Super Bowl. But what we have is a grotesque disparity between the rich and poor that is only getting wider.

People talk about places like Mumbai as a tale of two cities, as if the rich and poor don't have anything to do with each other.

I started caddying when I was nine years old at a very exclusive country club in Dayton, Ohio. And I saw how the other half lived, if you will.

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

Growing richer every day, for as rich and poor are relative terms, when the rich are growing poor, it is pretty much the same as if the poor were growing rich. Nobody is poor when the distinction between rich and poor is destroyed.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.