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I have never been in a violent movie or television show.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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Art simply can’t be stopped.
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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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We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.
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I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.
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