#middle

When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#battle #blacks #changed #civil #civil rights

The explosive growth in places like Shanghai has helped lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and into a thriving new middle class. What China has done is nothing short of an economic transformation, and the citizens of this country have every right to be proud. ↗

— Gary Locke

#citizens #class #country #done #economic

China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day. ↗

— Gary Locke

#american #brands #china #class #contrast

I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls. ↗

— Lavrenti Lopes

#class #class family #come #everyday #family

I still have a passion for the music, which is such a beautiful thing. I still wake up in the middle of the night out of a dream and have a melody in my head, and run to my piano. ↗

— Teena Marie

#beautiful thing #dream #head #i #melody

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. ↗

— Don Marquis

#always #ever #feel #good #man

What is hard to remember when you're in the middle of it is that when you get through to the other side, you always walk away with a gift. If you can stand in there and not walk away from it, you get transformed by it. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

#away #get #gift #hard #middle

You don't know whether he's thought through how this is going to affect the Middle East. ↗

— Chris Matthews

#east #going #how #know #middle

Some people put up a peace sign with one hand. Some people put up the middle finger instead. I use two hands and put up both. ↗

— Brian Celio

#finger #hand #hands #i #instead

I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth. ↗

— Steve McQueen

#city #earth #i #middle #nowhere