113 Quotes by Ruby Dee

I never remember, like, saying, 'Well, I'm going to belong - join the civil rights movement.'

I respect the fact that a director has studied the text and the road map of work before us, the subtleties, interconnections, underpinnings... His job is to paint the entire picture and knows all the colors that have to be in it.

My whole life is not defined by what Hollywood does.

Marriage, like love, is an aspiration. It's a process.

You can't be all you are meant to be if you think you are better than others, and you can't be all you are meant to be if you think you are less than others, either.

Oh, I'm impressed with Lorraine Hansberry. She was a genius at whose feet I could sit.

Is it safe and sane to only have one political and economic system by which everyone in the world can live? Or can we explore and share? God never made one of anything.

A nation's youths shouldn't be sent off to die.

You should always be prepared to win. But as much as I tell myself that, I've accepted another kind of role. Racism undercuts expectation, something like that. I'm not saying that to excuse myself from anything, but I've lived all this time, and things don't happen.