Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Beah Richards

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Beah Richards.

Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Beulah Elizabeth Richardson, known professionally as Beah Richards, was an American actress of stage, screen, and television. She was also a poet, playwright, author and activist.

American - Actress | July 12, 1926 - September 14, 2000

Source: Wikipedia

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

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

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

Beah Richards

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

Beah Richards

Nature is neither reasonable nor just. Nature is exact.

Beah Richards

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

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

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.

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