Ruby Dee

Quotes from Ruby Dee.

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

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

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

The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.
-Ruby Dee

I’m an adolescent old lady.
-Ruby Dee

We need to spend our time helping to make it easier for the people who are on the front lines of change, in our country and in this world.
-Ruby Dee

I am always becoming.
-Ruby Dee

I am somebody because you make me somebody.
-Ruby Dee

Why can’t we image makers become peace makers, too. Why cannot we, in such a time as this, use all the magic of our vaunted powers to lift the pistol from the schoolboy’s backpack.
-Ruby Dee

I think we’re born for a purpose in this world. What you are is part of what you do and vice versa.
-Ruby Dee