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". But because they are in some ways the beneficiaries of racism-they are racists!"

"A free-wheeling conversation with Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee 9 March, 2021"

"More women are becoming enraged about these things and I think we’re on the verge of doing something about them"

"In the world of entertainment, the problem for African-American artists is "lack of access to the levels of power"

"There is still a patronizing attitude in the media towards African-Americans"

"I am an actress, wife, mother, and own my own home and I have never seen my experiences reflected on the screen."

"When African-Americans are on screen, they've usually got guns."

"I usually played good girl wives and mothers. And truthfully those good-girl roles were stretches"

"Racism undercuts confidence. I wish I had known that sooner"

"Critics still see blacks as 'the other,' an 'exotic"

"I don't know who I would be if I weren't this child from Harlem, this woman from Harlem. It's in me so deep"

"It occurred to me that being what they call 'colored,' being a Negro, was some kind of a disadvantage"

"I never thought about myself as an activist when we were coming along"

"I love the people I love. I didn't care whether they could be a Democrat, Republican, communist ... anything but a racist"

"I didn't care about being integrated or accepted"

"they were just tasting a little teeny bit of what was racism and fascism and the horror of what was happening in the country"

"If I could be - somebody could think of me and feel encouraged"

"I felt envious of what I thought was the male prerogative"

"The worries and fears about personal lacks are immobilizing and make me dream the dream too long"

"the dreams stay in my head, they haunt me, they push me and become a kick to my consciousness, making me act"

"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."

"My constant battle is putting aside time wasters, and I have to watch out for procrastination"

"Staying on the path of something you’re trying to create has much to do with having confidence in yourself and in your capacity to realize the things you want out of life"

"We have to bring forward the graces in life and make them real"

"We have to institute democracy, which is still mostly an aspiration, and universal love, which is still unrealized"

"I dream of getting prisons off the stock exchange"

"It is a dastardly crime and an insult to the word democracy to make a commodity of jailing people."

"we gave ourselves permission to have other partners if we wished to"

"in a marriage loyalty and fidelity and trust cannot be compromised."

"Preserving the family means everything to our community now"

"The beauty of being a Catholic is, this is not the last time I will ever see my mother, we will be together again, there’s just this period where she’s not here, and so it’s not the most desperate feeling. It’s pretty bad, but it’s not the worst."

"You try to be a model of kindness and love and forgiveness to all those around you, because you have received kindness and love and forgiveness from God through Christ. That's what Christianity is. You don't see that too much. Sometimes that has been the fault of the Christian community, or the ignorance of the secular community."

"There’s a misconception that romance you had when first married is supposed to be there all the time, or that’s a sign the marriage is over or that you no longer love each other. When things get tough, you have to be able to withstand the pressure. I’m a big proponent of marriage counseling. You have to know yourself and how you respond to things, and that’s where therapy really helps. If you can’t afford therapy, there are plenty of excellent books that tell you many of the same things."

"Self acceptance is the sexiest thing to me."

"If you're a woman who doesn't know how to write, you're going to cry every night. But if you do, no problem."

"I think there's too much emphasis on beauty. I find it so limiting. I think just be yourself. Be who you are."

"When I was little I definitely was sad a lot and I used to dream. I used to get these obsessive crushes on non-available guys. Not any more, but that was my life for a long time."