Ruby Dee Quotes

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Ruby Dee

Profession : Actress

Birth : October 27, 1922

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.

Ruby Dee

You hear people say, 'We take our Tennessee Williams very seriously. There is no laughter here.' It's full of humor! Not to laugh is a big, bad mistake!

Ruby Dee

I have always been against the gangster as hero.

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God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.

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I don't know who I would be if I weren't this child from Harlem, this woman from Harlem. It's in me so deep.

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We are all a tiger with feelings. An elephant who never forgets. We are tiger, panther, monkey - we are all of these things, all of the life rhythms.

Ruby Dee

I pray with my whole soul that the divide-and-conquerers among us will not triumph over us. We need each other in this world so desperately.

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I think all human beings have a godlike, divine power, only most of us don't tap into it.

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Oh, I'm impressed with Lorraine Hansberry. She was a genius at whose feet I could sit.

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I learned that having great sensitivity is important. But being strong is just as important.

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I'm very much interested in getting prisons off the stock market. I'm very much interested in upgrading the public school system... and taking a second look at capital punishment.

Ruby Dee

It's getting increasingly difficult to be a dreamer under any circumstances.

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My constant battle is putting aside time wasters, and I have to watch out for procrastination. Staying on the path of something you're trying to create has much to do with having confidence in yourself and in your capacity to realize the things you want out of life.

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I didn't realize it until I was grown how necessary it is for good people to be tough.

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We don't realize how much racism has tainted our self-image as human beings.

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You can only appreciate freedom when you find yourself in a position to fight for someone else's freedom and not worry about your own.

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I do remember the numbers runners, I do remember the poverty and bread lines. Harlem stays with you forever.

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Black History Month is fine, but we need more months of the year to celebrate all the people on this earth. After all, we're all creatures of the same God.

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OK, boss, I don't mind shuffling, but I won't scratch my head.

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I have this deep love for authors. I think that we don't do enough to encourage love of words and love of books.

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