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“For me this was never a money issue, it was about being rich in your heart. To come home, and to be in the place where your dream first started, 15 minutes away from where my grandfather built my first basketball court, is a dream come true.”

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Author:Baron Davis

“People got to realize that the owners who been paying me are a lot richer than I am. It's not like I was born rich; I had to play basketball to make this type of money.”

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Author:Moses Malone

“There is still an assumption among many people that to be black is to be lower class. In the last fifteen to twenty years, perhaps even further back than that, there's also been an explosion of a very wealthy black class in the United States, but those people are often treated as special cases: they're athletes, entertainers. Jay-Z. Basketball players. The country metabolizes the fact these rich black people exist, but it seems only to reinforce the idea that every other black person is limping along in poverty.”

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Author:Ayana Mathis

“These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.”

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Author:Charles Barkley

“My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'.”

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Book:Sir Charles: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles Barkley

Source: Sir Charles: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles Barkley

“I was asked for years about being a Republican, probably because most black people are Democrats. My mother heard it once and called me and said 'Charles, Republicans are for the rich people.' And I said, 'Mom, I'm rich.'”

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Book:I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It

Source: I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It

“I like to help poor people who got no chance. If rich people don't, who will? Not other poor people, that's for sure.”

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Author:Charles Barkley

“I want to be a politician. I think I understand how the system works, I think a lot of politicians are corrupt, and it's about time we put some people in there who are going to look out for the majority of the people instead of the rich people.”

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Author:Charles Barkley

“Poor white people and poor black people just don't know how much they have in common. Rich people don't give a damn about either group.”

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Book:I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It

Source: I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It