Bemoan being lower-middle-class and colored in a police state that protects only rich white people and movie stars of all races, though I can’t think of any Asian-American ones.

I'm painfully middle class.

Illiteracy is the innability of a person to learn. It is not all about the innability to read or write as the middle class regards it.

It is the middle class which takes the country forward.

They had never struggled, and only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

You're a domestic man, David. You feel hundreds of small affections all the time. They haunt every friendly pillow and comfortable chair like household gods. Together they add up to a great love, big enough to ignore this silly man who's hanging around your wife's skirts.