A Quote by Darryl Pinckney

Black America has always felt itself divided into two classes: the mucky-mucks and the folk.

Darryl Pinckney

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Always America Black Black America Classes Divided Felt Folk Itself Two

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Darryl Pinckney
American - Novelist
Born: 1953

We understand that, in our communities, black trans folk, gender-nonconforming folk, black queer folk, black women, black disabled folk - we have been leading movements for a long time, but we have been erased from the official narrative.

Alicia Garza

Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

The black man in North America was sickest of all politically. He let the white man divide him into such foolishness as considering himself a black 'Democrat,' a black 'Republican,' a black 'Conservative,' or a black 'Liberal' ...when a ten-million black vote bloc could be the deciding balance of power in American politics, because the white man's vote is almost always evenly divided.

Malcolm X

There is not a history of black intellectuals being allied with dominant forces to hold white people in social and cultural subordination for a few centuries. Second, the "our" of black folk has always been far more inclusive that the "our" of white folk. For instance, there would have hardly been a need for "black" churches if "white" churches had meant their "our" for everybody - and not just white folk. But "our" black churches have always been open to all who would join. The same with white society at every level.

Michael Eric Dyson

America that is divided against itself cannot stand, and we cannot say we have all of this unity they say we have when black people are being discriminated against in every city in America I have visited.

Fannie Lou Hamer

America is a divided country; we have always been a divided country, but even more divided now, thanks to Trump and a lot of other things, as well.

Michael Kazin

Hasan Minhaj

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

Nicolas Chamfort

The world is divided into two classes - invalids and nurses.

James Whistler

Widows are divided into two classes - the bereaved and relieved.

Victor Robinson

People are divided into two classes - those who profit by experience and those who do not. The unfortunate part of it all is that the latter class is by far the larger of the two.

Douglas Fairbanks

People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser...and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.

John Ruskin

My biggest inspiration is black America and what they've done in the arts. I have always felt like an outsider in America, and what black Americans have done to add their chapter to this book called the American dream, and to be so unapologetic and true, and have added so much to art and culture in the world. Some of the greatest inspirations in my life have been black Americans. And I just wanted to say thank you. They've been a huge inspiration, to myself and this country.

Hasan Minhaj

America is a country that is now utterly divided when it comes to its society, its economy, its politics. There are definitely two Americas. I live in one, on one block in Baltimore that is part of the viable America, the America that is connected to its own economy, where there is a plausible future for the people born into it.