113 Quotes by Ruby Dee

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.

Revolutionaries don’t get job security. They compete with rats for cheese and with strays for shelter – after the big bullets make feet out of their knees.

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.

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.

The economics of life is against the family.

Black filmmakers - I'm grateful for them.

I have always been against the gangster as hero.

The white actresses I have known have been allowed to do 10 times more than I shall ever do.

I don't remember, as a child, feeling a lack of anything.