Over 50 Years of Love.

Thanks, Nana. I read it, again, and love this. 
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Black Love: Ruby Dee Shares Exclusive Photos Of Her and Ossie Davis

Ruby Dee On Marriage

“The idea that a good marriage is made in heaven and swung down on a golden cord like a gift from God did not coincide with my lifelong observations. Yes the wedding can be a beautiful and exciting, expensive event, or it can be a handshake, or a jump over a broom - but it is just that – an event, the one that precedes the marriage.” Ossie and Ruby together in the 1960s.

Ruby Dee on Love

“I thought I loved you when we got married but as I see now, I was only in the kindergarten of the proposition. To arrive at love is like working on a double doctorate in the subject of Life.” Ruby and Ossie together circa 1970.

Ossie Davis On Marriage

“Fifty years of being married, and what have I learned from it all? I say to my fellow husbands — whose eyeballs may be covered with lust — that the way to possess all women is to love one woman well. […] Marriage is the place which love calls home.” The Davis Family at the White House.