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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. "

Ruby Dee

You

Win

Time

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" The nature of racism is that it grinds down the soul of the man more finely than it does the soul of the woman. When you want to conquer a people or subject it, you destroy the male component. "

" I don't think the arts would have been as meaningful to me if I hadn't grown up in Harlem. "

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

" 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. "

" An Oscar nomination? That would be a very satisfying thing, I'm sure. I would appreciate the thought. It would be like taking your hat off as an actor to all the people who walk through you. "

" 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. "

" I learned that having great sensitivity is important. But being strong is just as important. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Life can't die. It's a contradiction. "

" 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. "

" It's getting increasingly difficult to be a dreamer under any circumstances. "

" Marriage is more complex than we think. "

Ruby Dee

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Than

" I'm proud of doing 'Long Day's Journey into Night,' for which I won an ACE award. "

" The greatest gift is not being afraid to question. "

" I don't know who I would be if I weren't this child from Harlem, this woman from Harlem. It's in me so deep. "

Ruby Dee

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Woman

" My stepmother wanted to be an actress. "

" OK, boss, I don't mind shuffling, but I won't scratch my head. "

" Black women have to know the historical and everyday struggles of black men, and our men have to know the struggles of black women in America. "

" I do remember the numbers runners, I do remember the poverty and bread lines. Harlem stays with you forever. "

" I have this deep love for authors. I think that we don't do enough to encourage love of words and love of books. "

" When I was young, I dreamt of being a starlet in Hollywood. But there comes a point in every African American's life when you realize the limitations, that you could only play maids or some little supporting role. Even Lena Horne couldn't get good parts. "

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

" Racism is a very insidious thing. It's dangerous to the psyche, to mind and body. It erodes the self-confidence. And I don't know how we get through it. "

" Before I latched onto the concept of stereotypes, not once did I reckon with the fact that I would never be a 'Hollywood starlet.' "

" I never remember, like, saying, 'Well, I'm going to belong - join the civil rights movement.' "

Ruby Dee

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Rights

" I didn't realize it until I was grown how necessary it is for good people to be tough. "