"It takes a long time to really be……" — Ruby Dee
"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."
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19 Quotes by Ruby Dee
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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…
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You just try to do everything that comes up. Get up an hour earlier, stay up an hour later, make…
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Classism and greed are making insignificant all the other kinds of isms.
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Paradise is to be the ultimate instrument, fulfilling God's desperate intent that we love each other.
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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…
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You have to learn how to be married. You have to learn to love somebody.
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You meet all kinds of people that help put life in perspective and turn the horror into some kind of…
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OK, boss, I don't mind shuffling, but I won't scratch my head.
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We both grew up in the atmosphere of struggle, both Ossie and me, ... I come out of Harlem and…
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See, I don’t expect to win a prize for stoic control and dignity at mourning time. Death deserve tantrums. Beating…
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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…
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Sorrow for not understanding like I understand now the unpredictable, profound journey that marriage is.
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Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who…
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