Social class positioning influences all aspects of everyday interaction – how to talk, if to talk and when, whom to trust, whether or not to plan or risk, what can or cannot be done, how to belong, and who to be. Of course, how people respond to th...
What sense would it make to classify a man as handicapped because he is in a wheelchair today, if he is expected to be walking again in a month, and competing in track meets before the year is out? Yet Americans are generally given 'class' labels on ...
World Class leaders know the secret to motivating themselves and others is discovering what they will fight for when the going gets rough.
If you haven't taken a writing class, take a writing class. I took every class that was available in my area. I went to conferences inside and outside my area to network with people. That's how I got my agent. I found my agent through another agent w...
I started playing violin in the 5th grade. They had a program in school where you could get out of class to go play instruments. So I raised my hand, left out of class, me and a bunch of my homeboys, just to get out of class for that day. They asked ...
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
Pundits talk about 'populist rage' as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.
The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced.
All the guys called the Olympic Village a high-class Boy Scout camp.
My friends always said that I should be a comedienne - I was named my class clown.
The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
The middle class has disappeared. We have a highway to poverty and no roads coming out.
I had, probably, a more challenging experience growing up than most middle-class chicks.
I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.
I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.
I can't tell a story about a working-class family on a premium channel that you have to pay to get.
Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.
It's easier to build a business around a first-class product, even if it's a more expensive product to produce.
When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.
I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.
