Famous Quotes by Ruby Dee

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

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

Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.

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

You can’t rely on how you look to sustain you. What sustains us, what is fundamentally beautiful, is compassion; for yourself and for those around you.

The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.

There is a place where I am always with you, where every laugh, every thought, every hurt, every memory is embraced.

The arts can engage people and bring them together in a very real way. They transcend differences.

In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else's path is wrong.

The moment you decide to begin, you’re already a success.

Do not wait for others to create the opportunities for you. Make your own way.

I want my work to be a blessing to those who are out there struggling.

We cannot live to ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads.

Dreams don’t have deadlines. I’m thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.

We all have the power to create change, and the strength to make it happen.

A strong woman knows that she is not alone and that her voice matters.

I want to be remembered as someone who did what she could to make the world a better place.

When you become your own audience, you give yourself the chance to feel connected to something greater than yourself.

The only thing that holds us back is fear and doubt.

Life is too short to not give it your all. Be all in and never look back.

History will remember us, not for the way we live, but for the way we made the world a better place.

I am not afraid to stand up for what I believe in, and neither should you be.