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Top 20 Ruby Dee Quotes (2025 Update)

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

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

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Ruby Dee Quote: “God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.”

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

Ruby Dee Quote: “Classism and greed are making insignificant all the other kinds of isms.”

3. “Classism and greed are making insignificant all the other kinds of isms.”

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Ruby Dee Quote: “The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.”

4. “The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.”

Ruby Dee Quote: “The world has improved mostly because unorthodox people did unorthodox things. Not surprisingly, they had the courage and daring to think they could make a difference.”

5. “The world has improved mostly because unorthodox people did unorthodox things. Not surprisingly, they had the courage and daring to think they could make a difference.”

Ruby Dee Quote: “Revolutionaries don’t get job security.”

6. “Revolutionaries don’t get job security.”

Ruby Dee Quote: “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 divorces within the marriage, you’re lucky and you stick it out.”

7. “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 divorces within the marriage, you’re lucky and you stick it out.”

Ruby Dee Quote: “Among whom the gods bless, high on the list are the music people, who tune into celestial vibe-brations and give mortals a taste of immortal sensations.”

8. “Among whom the gods bless, high on the list are the music people, who tune into celestial vibe-brations and give mortals a taste of immortal sensations.”

Ruby Dee Quote: “I don’t want to have my children have to get dressed up to go out to say good morning and deserve to live among some other people. I want to be able to be free and take for granted that my neighbors like me and I like them.”

9. “I don’t want to have my children have to get dressed up to go out to say good morning and deserve to live among some other people. I want to be able to be free and take for granted that my neighbors like me and I like them.”

Ruby Dee Quote: “A trustworthy marriage has weathered temptation and anger and jealousy, resentment, self-righteousness and a little bit of selfishness. When you get over and get through that, then maybe you can see the light to love.”

10. “A trustworthy marriage has weathered temptation and anger and jealousy, resentment, self-righteousness and a little bit of selfishness. When you get over and get through that, then maybe you can see the light to love.”

Ruby Dee Quote: “When you know my love, my love will warm you.”

11. “When you know my love, my love will warm you.”

Ruby Dee Quote: “OK, boss, I don’t mind shuffling, but I won’t scratch my head.”

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

Ruby Dee Quote: “Paradise is to be the ultimate instrument, fulfilling God’s desperate intent that we love each other.”

13. “Paradise is to be the ultimate instrument, fulfilling God’s desperate intent that we love each other.”

Ruby Dee Quote: “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 you all your days.”

14. “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 you all your days.”

Ruby Dee Quote: “Revolutionaries don’t get job security. They compete with rats for cheese and with strays for shelter – after the big bullets make feet out of their knees.”

15. “Revolutionaries don’t get job security. They compete with rats for cheese and with strays for shelter – after the big bullets make feet out of their knees.”

Ruby Dee Quote: “That’s what being young is all about. You have the courage and the daring to think that you can make a difference. You’re not prone to measure your energies in time. You’re not likely to live by equations.”

16. “That’s what being young is all about. You have the courage and the daring to think that you can make a difference. You’re not prone to measure your energies in time. You’re not likely to live by equations.”

Ruby Dee Quote: “I never thought about myself as an activist when we were coming along. I wasn’t a joiner. You know, I love the people I love. I didn’t care whether – they could be a Democrat, Republican, communist, you know, and anything but a racist.”

17. “I never thought about myself as an activist when we were coming along. I wasn’t a joiner. You know, I love the people I love. I didn’t care whether – they could be a Democrat, Republican, communist, you know, and anything but a racist.”

Ruby Dee Quote: “You have to learn how to be married. You have to learn to love somebody.”

18. “You have to learn how to be married. You have to learn to love somebody.”

Ruby Dee Quote: “Sorrow for not understanding like I understand now the unpredictable, profound journey that marriage is.”

19. “Sorrow for not understanding like I understand now the unpredictable, profound journey that marriage is.”

Ruby Dee Quote: “That we arrived at fifty years together is due as much to luck as to love, and a talent for knowing, when we stumble, where to fall, and how to get up again.”

20. “That we arrived at fifty years together is due as much to luck as to love, and a talent for knowing, when we stumble, where to fall, and how to get up again.”

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