Best 7 quotes of Beah Richards on MyQuotes

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?

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.

Heaven and earth! How is it that bodies join but never meet?

Nature is neither reasonable nor just. Nature is exact.

Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. Blood doesn't run in races! Come on!

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.

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.