Mindy Kaling Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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 rich are few everywhere, the poor many.

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.

by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them

Financial leverage is the advantage the rich have over the poor and middle class.

The rich are different from us.

The difference between rich and poor", said Francie, "is that the poor do everything with thier own hands and the rich hire hands to do things.

One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.

Them that's got shall get, Them that's not shall lose. So the Bible says, And it still is news. Mama may have, Papa may have, But God bless the child that's got his own.

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

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.

Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.

When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.

What I worry about is the lack of understanding in society around the world that there is a divide in the world between those who have and those who do not.

As we segregate by income into different communities, schools in lower-income areas have fewer resources than ever.

It so happens, in Malaysia, the people who are in a way not doing as well constitute the majority of the people - the Bumiputeras.

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.

I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that's great wealth.

To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.

It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.