The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within – strength, courage, dignity. Ruby Dee Read Quote
Black History Month is fine, but we need more months of the year to celebrate all the people on this earth. After all, we’re all creatures of the same God. Ruby Dee Read Quote
I’m very much interested in getting prisons off the stock market. I’m very much interested in upgrading the public school system… and taking a second look at capital punishment. Ruby Dee Read Quote
Racism is a very insidious thing. It’s dangerous to the psyche, to mind and body. It erodes the self-confidence. And I don’t know how we get through it. Ruby Dee Read Quote
I didn’t realize it until I was grown how necessary it is for good people to be tough. Ruby Dee Read Quote
We are all a tiger with feelings. An elephant who never forgets. We are tiger, panther, monkey – we are all of these things, all of the life rhythms. Ruby Dee Read Quote
