Ruby Dee Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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