Zitat des Tages von Ruby Dee:
I never thought about myself as an activist when we were coming along. I love the people I love. I didn't care whether they could be a Democrat, Republican, communist... anything but a racist.
When I was young, I dreamt of being a starlet in Hollywood. But there comes a point in every African American's life when you realize the limitations, that you could only play maids or some little supporting role. Even Lena Horne couldn't get good parts.
I'd come from a background in New York of picketing and protesting.
My constant battle is putting aside time wasters, and I have to watch out for procrastination. Staying on the path of something you're trying to create has much to do with having confidence in yourself and in your capacity to realize the things you want out of life.
God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.
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.
I never remember, like, saying, 'Well, I'm going to belong - join the civil rights movement.'
I think the poets and musicians, they belong to everybody.
The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.
God has use for all the old people.
Oh, I'm impressed with Lorraine Hansberry. She was a genius at whose feet I could sit.
I have this deep love for authors. I think that we don't do enough to encourage love of words and love of books.
The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.
Marriage, like love, is an aspiration. It's a process.
I remember street corners and pickets and parades. That's what I got teethed on.
OK, boss, I don't mind shuffling, but I won't scratch my head.
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.
We don't realize how much racism has tainted our self-image as human beings.
I didn't have the kind of talent or personality that kept me dreaming about Hollywood. They don't hire little colored girls to do this or that. After I got that in my head, I took another direction.
The nature of racism is that it grinds down the soul of the man more finely than it does the soul of the woman. When you want to conquer a people or subject it, you destroy the male component.
'Commitment' is a marvelous word.
I think I have something unique that I'd like to share.
I really don't believe in retiring as long as you can breathe.
The Divine Impulse - it's always safe to follow it. We've got to trust it and go wherever it takes us. Especially women.
I'm proud of doing 'Long Day's Journey into Night,' for which I won an ACE award.
I have always been against the gangster as hero.
My stepmother wanted to be an actress.
I think all human beings have a godlike, divine power, only most of us don't tap into it.
Marriage is more complex than we think.
I don't remember, as a child, feeling a lack of anything.
Black filmmakers - I'm grateful for them.
Just staying together is not a real virtue, if you're not happy. Or you're being denied. Or one person is being squashed. Or you really don't love each other; you're just there out of habit. That doesn't work, no matter how many years you stay together.
It's getting increasingly difficult to be a dreamer under any circumstances.
