Ruby Dee

“It's not a matter of how you look, but how you are on the inside.”

“You 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, 'Well, that was a neat piece of juggling.'”

“You can't be a human being and not have feelings.”

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

“God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.”

“The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.”

“Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is not a final fact.”

“A trustworthy commentary on the behavior of mankind is not going to be flattering to mankind.”

“Racism is a disease of the heart and mind.”

“Love and poetry are synonymous.”

“The world has improved, but it's not a world that I want to live in. There's so much hatred in this world.”

“I have to go to my outraged place. I have to get in touch with the part of me that is screaming... I am a human being.”