The world has improved mostly because unorthodox people did unorthodox things. Not surprisingly, they had the courage and daring to think they could make a difference.
Ruby DeeYou just try to do everything that comes up. Get up an hour earlier, stay up an hour later, make the time. Then you look back and say, โWell, that was a neat piece of juggling there -- school, marriage, babies, career.โ The enthusiasms took me through the action, not the measuring of it or the reasonableness.
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 DeeMy dream was I was going to be an actor. Racism occurred to me. It dawned on me that I would not be an actor. It occurred to me that I was not white. It occurred to me that being what they call colored, being a Negro, was some kind of a disadvantage.
Ruby Dee