GRACE LEE BOGGS: An Activist's Life Grace Lee Boggs and husband with Ossie Davis and wife, Ruby Dee, 1983 at the Twentieth Anniversay Celebration of THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Ossie Davis on Jimmy Boggs' book THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: "Coming away from the books I was indeed born again. I could see the struggle in a new light. I was recharged, my batteries were full and I was able to go back to the struggle carrying this book as my banner." -- quoted in Grace Lee Boggs, LIVING FOR CHANGE: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY