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Ruby Dee Quotes

Her complete name was Ruby Ann Wallace . Ruby Dee was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on Oct. 27, 1922, and grew up in Harlem in New York City. She began acting in high school, and continued at Hunter College. She played on Broadway in 1946, and has acted in movies, plays, radio, and television in a variety of roles, to critical acclaim. Dee has been active in civil rights causes, including being active in the NAACP, SCLC, and CORE. Ruby Dee was married to actor Ossie Davis from 1948 until his death in 2005, and raised three children. Dee died June 11, 2014, at her home in New Rochelle, N.Y. She was 91. Ruby Dee Quotes:    "You can only appreciate freedom when you find yourself in a position to fight for someone else’s freedom and not worry about your own." "The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity." "The greatest gift is not being afraid to question." "Classism and greed

Tribute to Ruby Dee - Here is Quotation of Dee's Interesting Words

Here is Quotation of Dee's Interesting Words There is an interesting words ever spoken Ruby. NY Times quoted it in the writing report. It mentioned that in 2005 Ms Ruby Dee received a lifetime achievement award from the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis. She said, "You can only appreciate freedom,” then, “when you find yourself in a position to fight for someone else’s freedom and not worry about your own.” Ruby Dee , one of the most enduring actresses of theater and film, whose public profile and activist passions made her, along with her husband, Ossie Davis, a leading advocate for civil rights both in show business and in the wider world, died on Wednesday at her home in New Rochelle, N.Y. She was 91. google image There are many stories about the journey these women activists throughout his life. Ruby Ann Wallace, as she was known when she was born in Cleveland on Oct. 27, 1922, grew up in Harlem. The third child of teenage parents, she was reared mostly b

Tribute to Ruby Dee - The Legendary Actress and Civil Rights Activist

Tribute to Ruby Dee - The Legendary Actress and Civil Rights Activist image Legendary actress and civil rights activist Ruby Dee - equally at home on Broadway, TV, film or on a protest march, often alongside Ossie Davis, her husband of 56 years - died Wednesday in her New Rochelle home. She was surrounded by family and friends. Her family, including her daughter Nora Davis Day has confirmed that she was 91. As mentioned in abcnews , Dee died of natural causes at her New Rochelle, New York. Dee also battled breast cancer a few decades back, is survived by the three children she had with her late husband, actor Ossie Davis: Guy, Nora Day and Hasna Muhammad. She is always an activist. It is reported in CNN , Dee and Davis - the two, who were married 56 years, always seemed connected - were an odd couple in some ways: She from New York, he from Waycross, Georgia. She was small and stylish, he was big and bluff. But their beliefs were often as one, and they practiced what they prea