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" I have always been against the gangster as hero. "
Ruby Dee
Against
Always
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" We women have a great function to perform. The world needs us. "
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" I respect the fact that a director has studied the text and the road map of work before us, the subtleties, interconnections, underpinnings... His job is to paint the entire picture and knows all the colors that have to be in it. "
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" I think you mustn't tell your body, you mustn't tell your soul, 'I'm going to retire.' You may be changing your life emphasis, but there's still things that you have in mind to do that now seems the right time to do. "
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" The greatest gift is not being afraid to question. "
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" You should always be prepared to win. But as much as I tell myself that, I've accepted another kind of role. Racism undercuts expectation, something like that. I'm not saying that to excuse myself from anything, but I've lived all this time, and things don't happen. "
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" I shined shoes; I did windows. "
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" I think all human beings have a godlike, divine power, only most of us don't tap into it. "
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" I remember street corners and pickets and parades. That's what I got teethed on. "
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" I learned that having great sensitivity is important. But being strong is just as important. "
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" 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. "
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Stock Market
Look
Punishment
" I don't think the arts would have been as meaningful to me if I hadn't grown up in Harlem. "
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Harlem
Arts
Meaningful
" I never remember, like, saying, 'Well, I'm going to belong - join the civil rights movement.' "
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Like
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" My stepmother wanted to be an actress. "
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Stepmother
Wanted
Actress
" Marriage is more complex than we think. "
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Than
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" It is so calming, marriage. "
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Marriage
Calming
" 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. "
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Direction
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Personality
" You have to learn how to be married. You have to learn to love somebody. "
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Learn
To Love
Love
" I pray with my whole soul that the divide-and-conquerers among us will not triumph over us. We need each other in this world so desperately. "
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World
Triumph
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" The white actresses I have known have been allowed to do 10 times more than I shall ever do. "
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More
Been
Ever
" I'm an actor who appreciates direction. "
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Who
Direction
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" Black filmmakers - I'm grateful for them. "
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Filmmakers
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Black
" I think the poets and musicians, they belong to everybody. "
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Think
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I Think
" 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. "
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Fight
Worry
Yourself
" We are all a tiger with feelings. An elephant who never forgets. We are tiger, panther, monkey - we are all of these things, all of the life rhythms. "
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Monkey
Tiger
Elephant
" We don't realize how much racism has tainted our self-image as human beings. "
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Realize
Much
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" The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity. "
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Strength
" Life can't die. It's a contradiction. "
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Contradiction
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" God has use for all the old people. "
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" Marriage, like love, is an aspiration. It's a process. "
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" Black History Month is fine, but we need more months of the year to celebrate all the people on this earth. After all, we're all creatures of the same God. "
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