Ruby Dee Quotes

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Ruby Dee

Profession : Actress

Birth : October 27, 1922

Black filmmakers - I'm grateful for them.

Ruby Dee

The white actresses I have known have been allowed to do 10 times more than I shall ever do.

Ruby Dee

I don't remember, as a child, feeling a lack of anything.

Ruby Dee

Before I latched onto the concept of stereotypes, not once did I reckon with the fact that I would never be a 'Hollywood starlet.'

Ruby Dee

Marriage is more complex than we think.

Ruby Dee

Just staying together is not a real virtue, if you're not happy. Or you're being denied. Or one person is being squashed. Or you really don't love each other; you're just there out of habit. That doesn't work, no matter how many years you stay together.

Ruby Dee

I think the poets and musicians, they belong to everybody.

Ruby Dee

'Commitment' is a marvelous word.

Ruby Dee