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Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.
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I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image.
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We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that fact causes you despair . . . pick another profession. Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities . . . We have to create our own standards of discipline.
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Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.
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If you say a word often enough it becomes you.
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Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.
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I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to.
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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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Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.
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My work is about giving voice to the unheard, and reiterating the voice of the heard in such a way that you question, or re-examine, what is the truth.
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I mean, I think a healthy country is a country where people are healthy physically, and a smart country is a country where people are educated.
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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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When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots,' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not.
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Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning.
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Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.
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What my work is, is my approach to it. It's the practice. And my work is about the effort that I make to get there. And I think if there's anything artistic, it's in that middle space.
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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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I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.
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Each person has a literature inside them.
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I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.
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