Quotes by category:Class

I don't know if it was a defining moment. I knew it as soon as I could comprehend the possibility of having a career. I knew very young I wanted to be a movie star. As much as I grew into love of the craft. As soon as I could speak I was auditioning and going to classes every day. It was my life.

careers stars class

This week Apple stores are holding free computer programming classes for children. Or as that's called in China, a job fair.

class jobs children

I was always the only black in the movie theater, the only black in class, the only black in the library, the only black in the discotheque. I always felt observed and judged.

library black class

The growth of entrepreneurial classes throughout the world is an asset in the promotion of human rights and individual liberty, and it should be understood and used as such. Yet peace is the first and most important condition for continued prosperity and freedom. America's military power must be secure because the United States is the only guarantor of global peace and stability. The current neglect of America's armed forces threatens its ability to maintain peace.

Condoleezza Rice

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I grew up in a very loving middle class family. My parents were educators. I'm not even the first PhD in my family. They tried to shield me, just as other parents in my neighborhood tried to shield their children. But you knew there was a reason that you couldn't go to that theme park or to a movie theater or to a hamburger stand. They couldn't shield you completely. What they did though was they never let it be an excuse for not achieving, and they always said racism is somebody else's problem, not yours. They tried in that way not to make us bitter about Birmingham.

Condoleezza Rice

racism class children

When people are educated, the distinction between classes disappe... by Confucius

When people are educated, the distinction between classes disappears.

disappear class people

Exemplary people concern themselves with virtue, by Confucius

Exemplary people concern themselves with virtue,

punishment class thinking

In teaching there should be no distinction of classes. by Confucius

In teaching there should be no distinction of classes.

teaching should class

I think I am the greatest fighter in any class. by Conor McGregor

I think I am the greatest fighter in any class.

fighter class thinking

I know I can hold two, maybe even three belts. So I have business to take care of back in and around my weight class.

three class two

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see cl... by Constance Baker Motley

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

Constance Baker Motley

warfare racism class

My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks. by Constance Baker Motley

My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.

Constance Baker Motley

distance class father

The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swa... by Constance Baker Motley

The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.

Constance Baker Motley

population white class

The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the mid... by Constance Baker Motley

The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.

Constance Baker Motley

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I was the lead in two musicals, and I took dance classes. by Corbin Bleu

I was the lead in two musicals, and I took dance classes.

dance-class class two

I still have a righteous indignation at injustice, no matter what form it takes. It could be homophobia, it could be white supremacy, male supremacy, imperial arrogance, class subordination or whatever.

arrogance white class

If you can't have a good time and smile and relate to people across race and class, then the success that you have ultimately is just sounding brass and tinkling symbol.

race class people

Without the presence of black people in America, European-Americans would not be "white"-- they would be Irish, Italians, Poles, Welsh, and other engaged in class, ethnic, and gender struggles over resources and identity. (p. 107-108)

struggle white class

Like Richard Ellmann on James Joyce, Arnold Rampersad on Ralph Ellison is in a class of its own. His masterful and magisterial book is the most powerful and profound treatment of Ellison's undeniable artistic genius, deep personal flaws, and controversial political evolution. And he reveals an Ellison unbeknownst to all of us. From now on, all serious scholarship on Ellison must begin with Rampersad's instant and inimitable classic in literary biography.

powerful class book

The problem is that affirmative action could never really get at the issue of corporate power in the workplace, and so you ended up with the downsizing; you ended up with de-industrializing. You ended up with the marginalizing of working people and working poor people even while affirmative action was taking place, and a new black middle class was expanding.

issues class people