Diminished Status Quotes

I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.

Once your network has lost confidence in you, you're headed for the dustbin of history.

I've got everything I had 20 years ago, except now it's all lower.

Once you're not No. 1, it doesn't matter where you are.

He used to be a star, but now... Walter is a constellation.

We will never be great again.

I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young.

By the time I got to 2015, I was sliding down the card. I was getting opportunities that I thought were kind of wasted. Like, I became the King of the Ring, which sounds like it should be impressive, but what it was followed up with was zero rises.

It is extremely interesting to me that black males, and other black folk, are viewed as self-pitying, by either other blacks who have failed to accurately calculate their own diminished status as a result of racial animosity - both individual and systemic - or by whites who fail to comprehend how, after forcing black folk into subservience for hundreds of years, they now whine about small privileges that pale - so to speak - in comparison to the untold advantage of centuries of benefit.