Vince Staples Quotes

I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.

Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.

I always felt slightly grubbier than most American people.

There are only two classes - first class and no class.

I'm reluctant to use the word class so much.

America is like a melting pot. The people at the bottom get burned, and the scum floats to the top.

Caste in India is the first and last reality.

The ‘poor white’ is actually degraded; the mountain white is a person not yet graded up.

I was born in a ghetto on the North Side of Pittsburgh. I was born as Emmett Till was dying and the civil rights era was being born.

Poor people know poor people, and rich people know rich people. It is one of the few things La Rochefoucauld did not say, but then La Rochefoucauld never lived in the Bronx.

I wonder if heaven got a ghetto?

The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations.

I can assure you that the class system is alive and well and living in people's minds in England.

The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.

Rewards are directly proportional to the suspect and his peers' status in society: $100,000 was offered in the Moxley case. It meant nothing to millionaires.

Class still matters in Britain today.

It is bad enough to be white and poor; it is worse still to be black, or brown, and female, and young, and poor. Simply said, race makes class hurt more.

Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups.

I had been in a film, playing a young British aristocrat. My wife told me that she was invited to a dinner and she invited me to dinner and the hostess had seen me and said, 'You cannot bring him.' but I think that I've done enough to shatter the image.

You know, I love all kinds of activism. I certainly think blacks deserve to have something whether it is affirmative action or an opportunity that should be opened up to them. But at the same time I believe that people of color are not the only poor people in America and all over the world.

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirror principle, you don't have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesn't work that way.

I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn't pay the rent.

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.

You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on.