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For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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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 was a kid, my grandfather said that if you say a word often enough, it becomes you. Thinking of that later in life gave me this idea that I could try to become America by learning the words of people from many aspects of the country.
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If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.
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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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Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America.
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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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People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.
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Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.
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Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.
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I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas.
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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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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 think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.
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Identity is an assemblage of constellations.
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