Beah Richards famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?
-- Beah Richards

#Race #Class #Justice
Heaven and earth! How is it that bodies join but never meet?
-- Beah Richards

#Heaven #Body #Earth
Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly theatrical and theater to be profoundly lifeless.
-- Beah Richards

#Culture #Racist #Theater
Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. Blood doesn't run in races! Come on!
-- Beah Richards

#Running #Winning #Race
There are a lot of movies out there that I would hate to be paid to do, some real demeaning, real woman-denigrating stuff. It is up to women to change their roles. They are going to have to write the stuff and do it. And they will.
-- Beah Richards

#Hate #Real #Writing
For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.
-- Beah Richards

#Challenges #Life Is
When people look only at the surface and that satisfies them and they think from that surface they see, that is to be truly blind.
-- Beah Richards

#Thinking #People #Perspective
Nature is neither reasonable nor just. Nature is exact.
-- Beah Richards

#Loss #Disaster #Reasonable

On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread"; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour.
Ten years ago I said, you know, my goal is to be able to get food on the table. What I'm trying to say by that is trying to create a vibrant, capable and effective middle class. The quicker and stronger that we can be able to do this, the easier it is for political reform to move forward.
I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.
Justice should be cheap but judges expensive.
Those who deplore our militants, who exhort patience in the name of a false peace, are in fact supporting segregation and exploitation. They would have social peace at the expense of social and racial justice. They are more concerned with easing racial tension than enforcing racial democracy.
A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.
I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.
Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

Beah Richards famous quotes

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