A trustworthy marriage has weathered temptation and anger and jealousy, resentment, self-righteousness and a little bit of selfishness. … - Ruby Dee

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I speak Spanish to my children and they speak it better than me.

Ruby Dee

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.

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

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You just try to do everything that comes up. Get up an hour earlier, stay up an hour later, make the time. Then you look back and say, ‘Well, that was a neat piece of juggling there -- school, marriage, babies, career. ’ The enthusiasms took me through the action, not the measuring of it or the reasonableness.

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The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.

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

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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.

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