I still am very street - I just have nicer clothes. I'm not ashamed of that.
My roots, my background and the way I act is working class, but it would be hypsocritical to say I'm anything else than middle class now.
I went to school like any other regular student till Class VIII, and my favourite subject was math. From Class IX, things got a little difficult to manage. I was inclined towards studies, but then I also had to give time to badminton.
Not only does a journey transport us over enormous distances, it also causes us to move a few degrees up or down in the social scale. It displaces us physically and also for better or for worse takes us out of our class context, so that the colour and flavour of certain places cannot be dissociated from the always unexpected social level on which we find ourselves in experiencing them.
I was born into no true class and it was my decision early in life to insinuate myself into the middle class like a spy so that I would have an advantageous position of attack, but I seem now and then to have forgotten my mission, and to have taken my disguises too seriously.
I think the fall from the farmer to the operative as great and memorable as that from the man to the farmer.
By the time I was in my early teens, we were able to move into a much more middle-class area. I had a comfortable adolescence.
I came from nothing. I came from the projects and welfare and ended up a millionaire with no frame of reference. I was bound to hit a wall sooner or later.
There was a bridge to the 21st century, and yet, somehow, for very large number of Americans, it was unclear how you got from one place to the other, from being a manual working-class man to being some part of a Brooklyn-based sharing economy.
Hamilton had a certain social versatility, and in a way, that is understandable because he's someone who rises up from the lowest rungs of society and then scales the top. And he gets to know people from every strata along the way.
the juniors were acting different because they are now the seniors. They even had T-shirts made. I don't know who plans these things.
The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.
