Ruby Dee Quotes

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

  Ruby Dee

  Strength, Inspiring, Beauty

  "Rhodessa Jones: Ruby Dee a guiding light for social change" by Rhodessa Jones, www.sfgate.com. June 17, 2014.

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• The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.

  Ruby Dee

  Inspiring, Inspiration, Questioning

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

  Ruby Dee

  Peace, Uncomfortable, American Woman

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• The world has improved mostly because unorthodox people did unorthodox things. Not surprisingly, they had the courage and daring to think they could make a difference.

  Ruby Dee

  Change, Thinking, Differences

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• You just try to do everything that comes up. Get up an hour earlier, stay up an hour later, make the time. Then you look back and say, ‘Well, that was a neat piece of juggling there -- school, marriage, babies, career.’ The enthusiasms took me through the action, not the measuring of it or the reasonableness.

  Ruby Dee

  Marriage, Baby, Children

  "Breaking: Legendary Actress Ruby Dee Has Died at Age 91, Family Says" by Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. June 12, 2014.

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• Revolutionaries don't get job security.

  Ruby Dee

  Jobs, Revolutionary, Security

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• You meet all kinds of people that help put life in perspective and turn the horror into some kind of lesson or avenue of awakening that lives with you all your days.

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  People, Perspective, Lessons

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• Art is in the process of redefining our relationships to each other ... The creative minds are bubbling, bubbling, and I know the soup that's coming up next time is going to feed a lot more of us.

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  Art, Creative, Mind

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• When you know my love, my love will warm you.

  Ruby Dee

  Love, Romantic, Loving Someone

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• It takes a long time to really be married. One marries many times at many levels within that marriage. If you have more marriages than you have divorces within the marriage, you’re lucky and you stick it out.

  Ruby Dee

  Divorce, Long, Lucky

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• Paradise is to be the ultimate instrument, fulfilling God's desperate intent that we love each other.

  Ruby Dee

  Paradise, Desperate, Instruments

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• A trustworthy marriage has weathered temptation and anger and jealousy, resentment, self-righteousness and a little bit of selfishness. When you get over and get through that, then maybe you can see the light to love.

  Ruby Dee

  Light, Self, Temptation

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• Classism and greed are making insignificant all the other kinds of isms.

  Ruby Dee

  Greed, Isms, Kind

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• My dream was I was going to be an actor. Racism occurred to me. It dawned on me that I would not be an actor. It occurred to me that I was not white. It occurred to me that being what they call colored, being a Negro, was some kind of a disadvantage.

  Ruby Dee

  Dream, White, Racism

  "Remembering Ruby Dee: 'Think Of Me And Feel Encouraged'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. June 13, 2014.

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• The divorce rate would be lower if instead of marrying for better or worse
  people would marry for good.

  Ruby Dee

  Marriage, Divorce, People

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• That's what being young is all about. You have the courage and the daring to think that you can make a difference. You're not prone to measure your energies in time. You're not likely to live by equations.

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  Inspirational, Thinking, Differences

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• Among whom the gods bless, high on the list are the music people, who tune into celestial vibe-brations and give mortals a taste of immortal sensations.

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  People, Giving, Tunes

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• That we arrived at fifty years together is due as much to luck as to love, and a talent for knowing, when we stumble, where to fall, and how to get up again.

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  Anniversary, Fall, Knowing

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

  Ruby Dee

  People, Racist, Care

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I don't want to have my children have to get dressed up to go out to say good morning and deserve to live among some other people. I want to be able to be free and take for granted that my neighbors like me and I like them.

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  Morning, Children, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• We both grew up in the atmosphere of struggle, both Ossie and me, ... I come out of Harlem and Harlem comes out of me - wailing police sirens and street parties, rumors and landlords, that cultural, spiritual scene. And Ossie came up from the South, where struggle and dying were part of everyday life. That is who we are.

  Ruby Dee

  Spiritual, Party, Struggle

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• Revolutionaries don't get job security. They compete with rats for cheese and with strays for shelter--after the big bullets make feet out of their knees.

  Ruby Dee

  Jobs, Feet, Shelter

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• Sorrow for not understanding like I understand now the unpredictable, profound journey that marriage is.

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  Journey, Profound, Understanding

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• My mother - my stepmother, really, she herself have been what they call an elocutionist. And she was the one who first encouraged me to write poetry, because she used to read it to us. And then when I began to write when I was nine years old, my first poem was published in the Amsterdam News. I called it "The Graveyard."

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  Mother, Writing, Years

  Source: www.npr.org

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• You have to learn how to be married. You have to learn to love somebody.

  Ruby Dee

  Married, Being Married

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