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Ruby Dee Quotes

The nature of racism is that it grinds down the soul of the man more finely than it does the soul of the woman. When you want to conquer a people or subject it, you destroy the male component.

Ruby Dee

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Nature Woman Soul Man Racism People

History and socio-economic inequality and all those things had, like, borne down upon my family and my community and really sort of narrowed our choices.

Jesmyn Ward

Family Community History Choices Our

The only reason investors haven't run screaming from an obviously corrupt financial marketplace is because the government has gone to such extraordinary lengths to sell the narrative that the problems of 2008 have been fixed.

Matt Taibbi

Government Problems Financial Run

I'm a natural technophobe, but I can see the importance of the digital role, and you have to celebrate it - our site is obviously an incredibly important part of our business now.

Matthew Williamson

Business Celebrate You I Can Now

Convinced that the attachment of colonies to the metropolis, depends infinitely more upon moral and religious feeling, than political arrangement, or even commercial advantage, I cannot but lament that more is not done to instill it into the minds of the people.

John Strachan

People Political Feeling Moral Done

Scarlett Johansson has a smile she tries to suppress in every movie she makes. She's been trying to keep a straight face since she appeared with Bill Murray 11 years ago in her breakthrough, 'Lost in Translation.'

Steve Erickson

Smile Face Trying Lost She Years

Now, given the experience that we have had thus far, with our subsequent trade agreements with NAFTA and others, you would think that with our experience of job loss that we have had there that when you find yourself in a hole that you might stop digging.

Stephen F. Lynch

Experience Job Yourself Think Loss

I'm really good at pretending.

Sophie McShera

Good Pretending Really

I went to James Monroe High School, a big school in the East Bronx. My first promotion was the first alumni reunion dance. I got all the names and addresses out of the yearbook. It came off very well.

Sid Bernstein

Dance School High School Promotion

Barbie ruined my life! It's a really bad image for women. For a long time I thought I was deformed - because my heels didn't touch the ground. I was walking around on tiptoes. What's up with that? I think that it's a bad thing for a woman to try to emulate.

Rita Rudner

Life Women Time Woman Think Thought

Democracy is indispensable, not because it renders superfluous the conquest of political power by the proletariat, but, on the contrary, because it makes this seizure of power both necessary and possible.

Rosa Luxemburg

Power Democracy Political Possible

The best shows are always the ones that are very, very low-concept and just about great characters.

Michael Schur

Great Best Always Just Very About

I don't believe in acting. I think that people in life act, but when you are on the stage or, in my case, also on screen, you have to be true.

Luise Rainer

Life People Believe Think Acting