Ruby Dee Quotes

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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.

Ruby Dee

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.

Ruby Dee

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

Ruby Dee

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

Ruby Dee

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.

Ruby Dee

Calling all sisters. Calling all
Righteous sisters.
Calling all women.

Ruby Dee

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

Ruby Dee

Ruby Dee

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Born: October 27, 1922

Died: June 11, 2014 (aged 91)

Bio: Ruby Dee was an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist and civil rights activist. She is perhaps best known for originating the role of "Ruth Younger" in the stage and film versions of A Raisin in the Sun.

Known for:

American Gangster (2007)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
The Jackie Robinson Story (1950)
Jungle Fever (1991)
A Raisin in the Sun (1961)

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