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Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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Many people are afraid to talk about race because it's so emotionally loaded. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it. Every day, our vocabulary seems more and more inadequate.
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I don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.
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Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides.
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Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America.
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Each person has a literature inside them.
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In my profession, I'm around a lot of people whose bodies are their instruments in one way or another.
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You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living in segregated schools, it's hard to believe that it was America, but it really was.
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I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.
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Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.
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If you say a word often enough it becomes you.
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I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.
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I never know when somebody's going to knock on the door of my own unconscious in a way that I wouldn't have anticipated.
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Use your time to bathe yourself in the gift. Move your hand across the canvas. Go to museums. Make this into an obsession.
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Each person has a literature inside them. But when people lose language, when they have to experiment with putting their thoughts together on the spot-that's what I love most. That's where character lives.
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Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.
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I think what I am is a convener I like to convene people around ideas.
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I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators the haute couture of language.
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Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.'
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If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I'm listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won't get anything unless I get those things out of the way.
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Discipline — both mental and physical — is crucial.
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