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1922–2014 United States
Ruby Ann Wallace, commonly known as Ruby Dee (October 27, 1922 – June 11, 2014) was an American actress , playwright, screenwriter, activist, poet and journalist.
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Preserving the family means everything to our community now
It is a dastardly crime and an insult to the word democracy to make a commodity of jailing people.
When African-Americans are on screen, they've usually got guns.
If I could be - somebody could think of me and feel encouraged
I am an actress, wife, mother, and own my own home and I have never seen my experiences reflected on the screen.
. But because they are in some ways the beneficiaries of racism-they are racists!
In the world of entertainment, the problem for African-American artists is "lack of access to the levels of power
I love the people I love. I didn't care whether they could be a Democrat, Republican, communist ... anything but a racist
We have to institute democracy, which is still mostly an aspiration, and universal love, which is still unrealized
We have to bring forward the graces in life and make them real
The worries and fears about personal lacks are immobilizing and make me dream the dream too long
There is still a patronizing attitude in the media towards African-Americans
Critics still see blacks as 'the other,' an 'exotic
I dream of getting prisons off the stock exchange
I didn't care about being integrated or accepted
My constant battle is putting aside time wasters, and I have to watch out for procrastination
I never thought about myself as an activist when we were coming along
The Divine Impulse—it’s always safe to follow it
Feminine sensibilities are not being acknowledged, and we’ve allowed the antipeople to steal the children and are tolerating far too much: the assault on ourselves, the families of the world, permitting war and rape.
I usually played good girl wives and mothers. And truthfully those good-girl roles were stretches
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