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Quotes from African American Women

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Ruby Dee Quote
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Ruby Dee Quote

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One of a series of quotes by African American women.

From Ruby Dee: "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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