“If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count.” IfsMotherFatherClassMiddleMy FamilyMiddle ClassMother And Father Author:Dave Van Ronk
“I'm sure everything has a bearing on what I'm doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there's lots of children, seven brothers, two sisters grew up together, fighting with each other, went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that's about the education level we had in the family.” ChildrenTwoSchoolTogetherMotherFightingFatherLevelsClassMiddleBrotherGrewGrew UpMy FamilySevenGradesMiddle ClassMiddle Class FamilyTwo Sisters Author:Muhammad Yunus
“When I came back from Pakistan, I wanted to take computer classes nearby. I asked my brother. I was in my home, cooking for my family, and all our relatives and guests. But I said, "I want to live my life as a woman, but I want to study." But, he told me, "Just study at home, you don't need to go out." He said, "If you go to the courses, what will our relatives say? They will lose respect for us." They told me, "We know you're feeling different, but we cannot do anything about it."” IfsKnowsWantNeedsSaidDifferentFeelingsHomeWantedCoursesLosesClassStudyBrotherComputerMy FamilyCookingMy BrotherGuestsLiving My LifePakistanHome Cooking Author:Malina Suliman
“I dabbled a little bit in acting in high school and then I forgot about it completely. And then at about twenty-five I went to a class. I don't think anybody in my family thought it was an intelligent choice. I don't think anybody thought I'd succeed, which is understandable. I think they were just happy that I was doing something.” ThinkingLittlesSchoolChoicesBitsActingClassSucceedLittle BitHigh SchoolMy FamilyIntelligent Author:James Gandolfini
“You panic button collector. You clock of beautiful ticks. You run out the door if you need to. You flock to the front row of your own class. You feather everything until you know you can always, always shake like a leaf on my family tree and know you belong here. You belong here and everything you feel is okay. Everything you feel is okay.” IfsKnowsInspirationalNeedsFeelsRunningBeautifulPoetryClassDoorsTreeFrontsMy FamilyOkayClockShakesPanicButtonsLeafsFeathersFlocksCollectorsTick Author:Andrea Gibson
“I will never date an actor or a model. My family will never accept her. We are a middle class family, and an actress will never be able to gel with us.” AbleActorsAcceptingClassMiddleModelsMy FamilyActressesMiddle ClassMiddle Class Family Author:Suresh Raina
“I'm working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have struggled.” WayClassMy FamilyNeighborWorking ClassSan Francisco Author:Cindy Sheehan
“I was brought up in a very naval, military, and conservative background. My father and his friends had very typical opinions of the British middle class - lower-middle class actually - after the war. My father broke into the middle class by joining the navy. I was the first member of my family ever to go to private school or even to university. So, the armed forces had been upward mobility for him.” FirstsWarSchoolFatherForceOpinionClassMiddleMilitaryMembersMy FamilyUniversityConservativeBritishBackgroundsBrokeMiddle ClassTypicalNavyJoiningArmed ForcesMobilityNavalPrivate SchoolUpward Mobility Author:Christopher Hitchens
“I think I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with.” ThinkingValuesStrongClassMiddleMy FamilyRaisedMiddle ClassExcessMiddle Class FamilyUpper Middle ClassStrong Values Author:Anne Hathaway
“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.” WayFirstsChildrenSaidReasonProblemParentClassMiddleAchieveGrewGrew UpRacismMy FamilyTheaterExcuseBitterParksThemeMiddle ClassNeighborhoodShieldsEducatorHamburgersMovie TheaterBirminghamPhdsMiddle Class FamilyTheme Parks Author:Condoleezza Rice
“I quit my job and for almost two years I didn't tell anyone, not even my family or friends. And for those two years I enrolled in acting classes. I acted in some capacity every single day.” YearsTwoJobsActingClassCapacityMy FamilyQuittingTwo YearsI QuitActing Classes Author:Jay Ellis
“Most people go to college to get a job, and here I am sitting in class with a job, making exponentially more than whoever's teaching me, you know what I'm saying? At the end of the day, I wanted to finish what I started, and make my mom proud. A lot of people put a lot of hard work and investment to allow me to go to school, and for me not to finish would have been like a slap in the face to my family and those people.” PeopleKnowsHas BeensEndsHardWantedSchoolJobsFacesClassTeachingCollegeHard WorkMomProudSittingMy FamilyInvestmentMy MomThe End Of The DaySlapHere I AmSlap In The Face Author:Mike Posner
“Struggling to stay in the middle class, and I love that. That's me and my dad and my family.” ClassStruggleMiddleDadMy FamilyMy DadMiddle Class Author:Tavis Smiley
“My decision was sparked by affirmative action. There was a point in my life when affirmative action would have meant something to me - when my family was working-class, and we were struggling.” ActionDecisionClassStruggleMy FamilyWorking ClassAffirmative ActionAffirmative Author:Richard Rodriguez
“I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.” KidsHouseRoomsClassFourMiddleMy FamilyIncludingMiddle ClassNo Money Author:Patti Smith
“My brother became so enamored with that film [West Side Story], that he started taking tap-dancing lessons, and I followed him and started tap dancing, and my mother and father started tap dancing - I was in a class with my family, tap dancing!” StoriesFilmMotherFatherSidesClassBrotherLessonsMy FamilyDancingWestMy BrotherMother And FatherEnamoredWest SideTap DancingWest Side Story Author:Marisa Tomei
“I'm not into branding - I'm trying to be organic to who I am on every level. I do really connect to being a part of the working class. Those are my roots. My family [consists of] farmers from Portugal, builders, housekeepers and stonemasons.” TryingLevelsClassRootsMy FamilyWho I AmFarmersBrandingWorking ClassBuilderPortugalHousekeepers Author:Nelly Furtado
“My father is a gypsy. He traveled in caravans and was branded by the Ku Klux Klan. You know I have a history about race in my family that has very much to do with the other things that you name about poverty, about class, about access - or lack of it.” KnowsFatherNamesRaceClassPovertyMy FamilyAccessTraveledGypsyKu Klux KlanBrandedCaravans Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“I was an altar boy, I took catechism classes and religion classes, and I prayed a lot as a child. My family was very religious, and I really experienced God.” ChildrenReligiousClassBoysMy FamilyAltarsCatechism Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadn’t dropped anything. I was terrified of unwittingly leaving behind a scrap of paper on which were written all my private desires and humiliations. The fact that no such scrap of paper existed, that I did not even keep a diary or write letters except bland, earnest, falsely cheerful ones to my family (We lost to St. Francis in soccer, but I think we’ll win our game this Saturday; we are working on self-portraits in art class, and the hardest part for me is the nose) never decreased my fear.” ThinkingWritingArtSelfFactsDesireGamesWinningLostBehindsClassWrittenPaperMy FamilyLettersLeavingHardestSoccerNosesChairsPortraitsTerrifiedSaturdayHumiliationCheerfulEarnestDiariesDecreaseScrapBlandSelf PortraitArt Class Book:Prep: a novel Source: Prep: a novel
“Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.” YearsRunningSchoolFunnyFamilyClassFiveTeacherTeachingSmartMy FamilyIntelligenceFive YearsSeniorSchool TeachersSmartnessFunny FamilyRetired TeacherRetiring Teachers Author:Gracie Allen