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.
Ruby DeeSpike Lee made such a difference in terms of black filmmakers, the subtleties - those authors, those writers who write from love, and those who write from that lofty position of superiority.I felt he took aspects of the black experience in America and held it up for us to see. He tried to put it in perspective. He did put it in perspective in his unique way.
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 Dee