Ruby Dee Quotes

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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…
• 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…
• Classism and greed are making insignificant all the other kinds of isms.
• Paradise is to be the ultimate instrument, fulfilling God's desperate intent that we love each other.
• 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…
• 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…
• You have to learn how to be married. You have to learn to love somebody.
• 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…
• OK, boss, I don't mind shuffling, but I won't scratch my head.
• We both grew up in the atmosphere of struggle, both Ossie and me, ... I come out of Harlem and Harlem comes out of me…
• See, I don’t expect to win a prize for stoic control and dignity at mourning time. Death deserve tantrums. Beating back shocked indignation, kicks in…
• 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.
• Sorrow for not understanding like I understand now the unpredictable, profound journey that marriage is.
• Revolutionaries don't get job security.
• The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.
• The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.
• When you know my love, my love will warm you.
• God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.
• 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…

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