Beah Richards Quotes

#1. Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?

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#2. Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly theatrical and theater to be profoundly lifeless.

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#3. Heaven and earth! How is it that bodies join but never meet?

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#4. Be mindful that the world that you want to live in and that you need to live in needs you to create it; it needs your input. The world needs to hear what you have to say. The last word has not been spoken.

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#5. Nature is neither reasonable nor just. Nature is exact.

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#6. For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.

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#7. There are a lot of movies out there that I would hate to be paid to do, some real demeaning, real woman-denigrating stuff. It is up to women to change their roles. They are going to have to write the stuff and do it. And they will.

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#8. Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. Blood doesn't run in races! Come on!

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#9. When people look only at the surface and that satisfies them and they think from that surface they see, that is to be truly blind.

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