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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. "

Ruby Dee

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" I think the poets and musicians, they belong to everybody. "

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" I remember street corners and pickets and parades. That's what I got teethed on. "

" Marriage is really an exciting adventure. "

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" You can't be all you are meant to be if you think you are better than others, and you can't be all you are meant to be if you think you are less than others, either. "

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" My experience for myself as a performer is not one of high expectations. "

" Just staying together is not a real virtue, if you're not happy. Or you're being denied. Or one person is being squashed. Or you really don't love each other; you're just there out of habit. That doesn't work, no matter how many years you stay together. "

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" My constant battle is putting aside time wasters, and I have to watch out for procrastination. Staying on the path of something you're trying to create has much to do with having confidence in yourself and in your capacity to realize the things you want out of life. "

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" The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity. "

" 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'd come from a background in New York of picketing and protesting. "