It takes a long time to really be married. One marries many times at many levels within that marriage. If you have more marriages than you have divor…

- Ruby Dee

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 yo…

- Ruby Dee

The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.

- Ruby Dee

The world has improved mostly because unorthodox people did unorthodox things. Not surprisingly, they had the courage and daring to think they could …

- Ruby Dee

Revolutionaries don't get job security.

- Ruby Dee

Art is in the process of redefining our relationships to each other ... The creative minds are bubbling, bubbling, and I know the soup that's coming …

- Ruby Dee

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

- Ruby Dee

You have to learn how to be married. You have to learn to love somebody.

- Ruby Dee

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

- Ruby Dee