Quotes by Ruby Dee

Ruby Dee

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.

Light

Self

Temptation

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.

Giving

People

Tunes

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.

Art

Creative

Mind

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

Greed

Isms

Kind

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

American Woman

Peace

Uncomfortable

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.

Children

Morning

People

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.

Care

People

Racist

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.

Divorce

Long

Lucky

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.

Dream

Racism

White

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.”

Mother

Writing

Years

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American Woman

Anniversary

Art

Baby

Beauty

Being Married

Boss

Care

Change

Children

Creative

Desperate

Differences

Divorce

Dream

Fall

Feet

Giving

Greed

Inspiration

Inspirational

Inspiring

Instruments

Isms

Jobs

Journey

Kind

Knowing

Lessons

Light

Long

Love

Loving Someone

Lucky

Marriage

Married

Mind

Morning

Mother

Paradise

Party

Peace

People

Perspective

Play

Profound

Questioning

Racism

Racist

Rap

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Quotes by Ruby Dee

Ruby Dee

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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