Ruby Dee Quotes

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.

Ruby Dee

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 27, 1922 - June 11, 2014

Topics

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In the early 1980s, I got into a war with my management - they just kept on suing me and I lost everything. So I had to go out on tour to make sure the electricity stayed on.

Meat Loaf

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My hope is that we continue to do an even better job in terms of our nation's energy policy, so that we may even further reduce our reliance on foreign sources of oil and take better care of our environment in the process.

John M. McHugh

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I hate to say it, but, yeah, I'm a tobacco junkie.

Tony Gwynn

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Everyone has their dreams and their rise and their own version of a fall from grace.

Molly Bloom

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'Iron Man' was this fun, poppy thing bound to make a zillion dollars. And we were the other side of a superhero movie. More complex with The Hulk being this complex character - that's what it was.

Louis Leterrier

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'Power Paandi' is about the outcome of embracing love, peacefulness, and positivity around us.

Dhanush

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Usually, the great thing about cycling is that anybody can watch it; it's very accessible.

Bradley Wiggins

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Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

Bridget Riley

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When you think positively, you attract positive people. If I'm on a mission to be successful, and I'm positive all the time, then more positive people will come around me, and we'll help each other. If you're negative, you'll find yourself surrounded by negative people.

Astro

PositiveTimeYourselfPeopleMe

If you want to do something, then you do it. If you don't want to do something, don't just do it because your friends are doing it, or because all the popular kids are doing it.

Alia Shawkat

FriendsDoingYouWantJust Do It

The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery other than in prisons - but it was a lie that you regained your freedom once you left the prison gates.

Susan Burton

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Earlier, I used to try to act, but now I just react naturally. I feel the scene and then do it. Emotions, feelings just flow in naturally.

Shaheer Sheikh

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