Pharrell Williams Quotes

We are still a nation deeply divided by race and class.

For all the chatter that Britain has moved beyond class, recent studies have found that it determines the life chances of British people more today than at any point since the Second World War... A child born into a rich family in Britain will almost certainly live and die rich, while a child born into a poor family will almost certainly live and die poor.

I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.

In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence.

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.

That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation.

A lot of the things that we think of as being racial differences are really class differences in America.

An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days. 'My thesis is on the survival of the class system in the United States.' 'Oh really, that's interesting: one didn't think there was a class system in the United States.' 'Nobody does. That's how it survives.

Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.

Class is rarely talked about in the United States; nowhere is there a more intense silence about the reality of class differences than in educational settings.

I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

In Caribbean there is no middle class: you're either rich or you're poor. And the ladder to success is not really a ladder, it's a chain; once you reach a certain level, you can't go back and you can only keep going forward.

America is a country that would rather talk about race than class.

Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.

There is this to be said about having money. You get rejected by a higher class of people.

There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and miserable - among both rich and poor.

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

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

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.

Growing up on, say, the Upper East Side, you're so isolated. If you go to the Hamptons every weekend, you never talk to a construction worker, and the construction worker would never talk to you.

When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.

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.