Latest Ruby Dee Quotes from Interviews

• 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

  People, Racist, Care

  Source: www.npr.org

• Spike Lee made such a difference in terms of black filmmakers, the subtleties - those authors, those writers who write from love, and those who write from that lofty position of superiority.I felt he took aspects of the black experience in America and held it up for us to see. He tried to put it in perspective. He did put it in perspective in his unique way.

  Ruby Dee

  Writing, Unique, Differences

  Source: www.npr.org

• 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

  Morning, Children, People

  Source: www.npr.org

• My dream was I was going to be an actor. Racism occurred to me. It dawned on me that I would not be an actor. It occurred to me that I was not white. It occurred to me that being what they call colored, being a Negro, was some kind of a disadvantage.

  Ruby Dee

  Dream, White, Racism

  "Remembering Ruby Dee: 'Think Of Me And Feel Encouraged'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. June 13, 2014.

• My mother - my stepmother, really, she herself have been what they call an elocutionist. And she was the one who first encouraged me to write poetry, because she used to read it to us. And then when I began to write when I was nine years old, my first poem was published in the Amsterdam News. I called it "The Graveyard."

  Ruby Dee

  Mother, Writing, Years

  Source: www.npr.org