Famous quotes containing the words working class, jewish, working and/or class:
“That’s what being in the working class is all about—how to get out of it.”
—Neville Kenneth Wran (b. 1926)
“I know that I will always be expected to have extra insight into black texts—especially texts by black women. A working-class Jewish woman from Brooklyn could become an expert on Shakespeare or Baudelaire, my students seemed to believe, if she mastered the language, the texts, and the critical literature. But they would not grant that a middle-class white man could ever be a trusted authority on Toni Morrison.”
—Claire Oberon Garcia, African American scholar and educator. Chronicle of Higher Education, p. B2 (July 27, 1994)
“Hello, Lucy, had a busy night? We’ve been working hard too.”
—Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)
“There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)