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 DeeThe kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.
Ruby DeeYou 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 DeeSorrow for not understanding like I understand now the unpredictable, profound journey that marriage is.
Ruby DeeWe both grew up in the atmosphere of struggle, both Ossie and me, ... I come out of Harlem and Harlem comes out of me - wailing police sirens and street parties, rumors and landlords, that cultural, spiritual scene. And Ossie came up from the South, where struggle and dying were part of everyday life. That is who we are.
Ruby Dee