Author: Ruby Dee

Quotes

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

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

- Ruby Dee

I have this deep love for authors. I think that we don't do enough to encourage love of words and love of books.

I have this deep love for authors. I think that we don't do enough to encourage love of words and love of books.

- Ruby Dee

I think all human beings have a godlike, divine power, only most of us don't tap into it.

I think all human beings have a godlike, divine power, only most of us don't tap into it.

- Ruby Dee

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.

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.

- Ruby Dee

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.

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

Black women have to know the historical and everyday struggles of black men, and our men have to know the struggles of black women in America.

Black women have to know the historical and everyday struggles of black men, and our men have to know the struggles of black women in America.

- Ruby Dee

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

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

- Ruby Dee

You can only appreciate freedom when you find yourself in a position to fight for someone else's freedom and not worry about your own.

You can only appreciate freedom when you find yourself in a position to fight for someone else's freedom and not worry about your own.

- Ruby Dee

I didn't realize it until I was grown how necessary it is for good people to be tough.

I didn't realize it until I was grown how necessary it is for good people to be tough.

- Ruby Dee

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