Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly theatrical and theater to be profoundly lifeless.

- Beah Richards

Nature is neither reasonable nor just. Nature is exact.

- Beah Richards

Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. Blood doesn't run in races! Come on!

- Beah Richards

Heaven and earth! How is it that bodies join but never meet?

- Beah Richards

There are a lot of movies out there that I would hate to be paid to do, some real demeaning, real woman-denigrating stuff. It is up to women to chang…

- Beah Richards

When people look only at the surface and that satisfies them and they think from that surface they see, that is to be truly blind.

- Beah Richards

For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.

- Beah Richards

Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is hum…

- Beah Richards