Paradise is to be the ultimate instrument, fulfilling God's desperate intent that we love each other.
Ruby DeeThe kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.
Ruby DeeMy mother - my stepmother, really, she herself have been what they call an elocutionist. And she was the one who first encouraged me to write poetry, because she used to read it to us. And then when I began to write when I was nine years old, my first poem was published in the Amsterdam News. I called it "The Graveyard."
Ruby DeeArt 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