Ruby Dee Quotes

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Ruby Dee

Profession : Actress

Birth : October 27, 1922

The Divine Impulse - it's always safe to follow it. We've got to trust it and go wherever it takes us. Especially women.

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We women have a great function to perform. The world needs us.

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Black women have to know the historical and everyday struggles of black men, and our men have to know the struggles of black women in America.

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I'm proud of doing 'Long Day's Journey into Night,' for which I won an ACE award.

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I never thought about myself as an activist when we were coming along. I love the people I love. I didn't care whether they could be a Democrat, Republican, communist... anything but a racist.

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I'd come from a background in New York of picketing and protesting.

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My stepmother wanted to be an actress.

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Marriage is really an exciting adventure.

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It is so calming, marriage.

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Marriage, like love, is an aspiration. It's a process.

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Gangsters lived in the neighborhood. They weren't apart from it. Their relationships with people were both benevolent and scary.

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I respect the fact that a director has studied the text and the road map of work before us, the subtleties, interconnections, underpinnings... His job is to paint the entire picture and knows all the colors that have to be in it.

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I'm an actor who appreciates direction.

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I think I have something unique that I'd like to share.

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Is it safe and sane to only have one political and economic system by which everyone in the world can live? Or can we explore and share? God never made one of anything.

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I didn't have the kind of talent or personality that kept me dreaming about Hollywood. They don't hire little colored girls to do this or that. After I got that in my head, I took another direction.

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Life can't die. It's a contradiction.

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You can't be all you are meant to be if you think you are better than others, and you can't be all you are meant to be if you think you are less than others, either.

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I shined shoes; I did windows.

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There is a place for people 65 and older that no other age group can fit. We have nothing to lose. Some of us have a couple pennies. We can go out now and really be revolutionaries.

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