With Ossie and Ruby Quotes

“... Harlem was home; was where we belonged; where we knew and were known in return; where we felt most alive; where, if need be, somebody had to take us in. Harlem defined us, claiming our consciousness and, I suspect, our unconsciousness. (Page 64)”
― Ossie Davis, With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together

“It occurred to us, from observation and from reasonin, that extra marital sex was not what really destroyed marriages, but rather the lies and deception that invariably accompanied it -- that was the culprit. Page 317”
― Ossie Davis Ruby Dee, With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together