Quotes About Ruby Dee

#1. Every film by Will Smith, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Lena Horne, Ruby Dee, Don Cheadle will have great acting and carry good messages in the film. The films starring those actors are the films I tell young people to watch for good acting and to view for quality movies.

Brian J. White

#2. 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.

Ruby Dee

#3. 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.

Ruby Dee

#4. I have occasionally - if ever I do interviews that are difficult or nerve-wracking - I take my wife's dog tags and have them in my pocket because it's a very quick way to realize that what I'm doing is not that important. It's not really worth getting stressed about because it's not, you know, war.

John Oliver

#5. Paradise is to be the ultimate instrument, fulfilling God's desperate intent that we love each other.

Ruby Dee

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

Ruby Dee

#7. That we arrived at fifty years together is due as much to luck as to love, and a talent for knowing, when we stumble, where to fall, and how to get up again.

Ruby Dee

#8. Revolutionaries don't get job security.

Ruby Dee

#9. The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.

Ruby Dee

#10. The world has forgotten that there is more pleasure in wondering than knowing.

Leah Stewart

#11. The cyclic universe theory predicts no gravitational waves from the early universe.

Stephen Hawking

#12. All my brothers and my dad at one point had dreadlocks.

Zendaya

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

Ruby Dee

#14. 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.

Ruby Dee

#15. The two most dangerous things in the world are rich people and crazy people. The Roanokes are rich like pharoahs and crazier'n a snake-fucking baby.

Warren Ellis

#16. The closet encouraged reading.

Jonathan Ned Katz

#17. It occurred to us, from observation and from reasonin, that extra marital sex was not what really destroyed marriages, but rather the lies and deception that invariably accompanied it
that was the culprit. Page 317

Ossie Davis Ruby Dee

#18. When you know my love, my love will warm you.

Ruby Dee

#19. 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.

Ruby Dee

#20. 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.

Ruby Dee

#21. The world has improved mostly because unorthodox people did unorthodox things. Not surprisingly, they had the courage and daring to think they could make a difference.

Ruby Dee

#22. 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.

Ruby Dee

#23. I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some justification-the danger that the Germans would make them.

Albert Einstein

#24. 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.

Ruby Dee

#25. Sorrow for not understanding like I understand now the unpredictable, profound journey that marriage is.

Ruby Dee

#26. A sentimental aphorism is even more a surprise than a hard- boiled sonnet.

Mason Cooley

#27. OK, boss, I don't mind shuffling, but I won't scratch my head.

Ruby Dee

#28. When you want to become free, your righteousness and anger are much less interesting than they used to be.

Ram Dass

#29. I am not trying to bring down the NSA, I am working to improve the NSA. I am still working for the NSA right now. They are the only ones who don't realize it.

Edward Snowden

#30. 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.

Ruby Dee

#31. The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.

Ruby Dee

#32. Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.

T. S. Eliot

#33. The divorce rate would be lower if instead of marrying for better or worse
people would marry for good.

Ruby Dee

#34. You have to learn how to be married. You have to learn to love somebody.

Ruby Dee

#35. You meet all kinds of people that help put life in perspective and turn the horror into some kind of lesson or avenue of awakening that lives with you all your days.

Ruby Dee

#36. It's more fun to play a good character with a good director and good actors around you. That's what makes it fun, and the more variety, the better.

Salma Hayek