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Ruby Dee
31 quotes
“I don't know who I would be if I weren't this child from Harlem, this woman from Harlem. It's in me so deep”
Ruby Dee (1922–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It occurred to me that being what they call 'colored,' being a Negro, was some kind of a disadvantage”
Ruby Dee (1922–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I never thought about myself as an activist when we were coming along”
Ruby Dee (1922–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I love the people I love. I didn't care whether they could be a Democrat, Republican, communist ... anything but a racist”
Ruby Dee (1922–2014) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ruby Dee: An Actress Who Marched On Washington And Onto The Screen 12 June, 2014
“I didn't care about being integrated or accepted”
Ruby Dee (1922–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“they were just tasting a little teeny bit of what was racism and fascism and the horror of what was happening in the country”
Ruby Dee (1922–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If I could be - somebody could think of me and feel encouraged”
Ruby Dee (1922–2014) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remembering Ruby Dee: 'Think Of Me And Feel Encouraged' 13 June, 2014
“I felt envious of what I thought was the male prerogative”
Ruby Dee (1922–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The worries and fears about personal lacks are immobilizing and make me dream the dream too long”
Ruby Dee (1922–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“the dreams stay in my head, they haunt me, they push me and become a kick to my consciousness, making me act”
Ruby Dee (1922–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Divine Impulse—it’s always safe to follow it”
Ruby Dee (1922–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Feminine sensibilities are not being acknowledged, and we’ve allowed the antipeople to steal the children and are tolerating far too much: the assault on ourselves, the families of the world, permitting war and rape.”
Ruby Dee (1922–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“More women are becoming enraged about these things and I think we’re on the verge of doing something about them”
Ruby Dee (1922–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My constant battle is putting aside time wasters, and I have to watch out for procrastination”
Ruby Dee (1922–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Staying on the path of something you’re trying to create has much to do with having confidence in yourself and in your capacity to realize the things you want out of life”
Ruby Dee (1922–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have to bring forward the graces in life and make them real”
Ruby Dee (1922–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have to institute democracy, which is still mostly an aspiration, and universal love, which is still unrealized”
Ruby Dee (1922–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I dream of getting prisons off the stock exchange”
Ruby Dee (1922–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is a dastardly crime and an insult to the word democracy to make a commodity of jailing people.”
Ruby Dee (1922–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“we gave ourselves permission to have other partners if we wished to”
Ruby Dee (1922–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“in a marriage loyalty and fidelity and trust cannot be compromised.”
Ruby Dee (1922–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Preserving the family means everything to our community now”
Ruby Dee (1922–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Heart Stuff: Susan L. Taylor Talks Love with Ruby Dee 27 October, 2020
“In the world of entertainment, the problem for African-American artists is "lack of access to the levels of power”
Ruby Dee (1922–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is still a patronizing attitude in the media towards African-Americans”
Ruby Dee (1922–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am an actress, wife, mother, and own my own home and I have never seen my experiences reflected on the screen.”
Ruby Dee (1922–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When African-Americans are on screen, they've usually got guns.”
Ruby Dee (1922–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I usually played good girl wives and mothers. And truthfully those good-girl roles were stretches”
Ruby Dee (1922–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Racism undercuts confidence. I wish I had known that sooner”
Ruby Dee (1922–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Critics still see blacks as 'the other,' an 'exotic”
Ruby Dee (1922–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“. But because they are in some ways the beneficiaries of racism-they are racists!”
Ruby Dee (1922–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A free-wheeling conversation with Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee 9 March, 2021”
Ruby Dee (1922–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source