Boots Riley Quotes

If you are poor today, you will always be poor. Only the rich now acquire riches.

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

I do think that there is both a very powerful sense of entitlement and a kind of bubble of wealth which makes it hard for the people at the very top to understand the travails of the middle class.

Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.

I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.

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.

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 don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

The biggest single challenge to America and our future is income inequality. We've got to fix it.

It isn't the rich people's fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.

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

It's not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, 'Oh, I hate the people who live in these nice houses.'

The world belongs to the wealthy, and nowhere is this injustice more apparent than in the workplace.

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

Class envy is dangerous.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

Class still matters in Britain today.

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

In a city like New York, you're aware of the rich and poor.

If you have extremes of haves and have-nots where the gap keeps growing, the have-nots group together and create social disorder, as they can't see a way out of their situation.

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

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.

The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing.