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I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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Art should take what is complex and render it simply. It takes a lot of skill, human understanding, stamina, courage, energy, and heart to do that.
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My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.
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People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.
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President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that's what we need most in our country today.
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Each person has a literature inside them.
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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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That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.
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Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound touchy-feely it is not. It is very hard work.
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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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I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker I just didn't have the resources to do that.
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Self-esteem does not come from surrounding yourself with people and things that seem to increase your value. Real self-esteem is an integration of an inner-value with things in the world around you.
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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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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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Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.
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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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A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.
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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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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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Some people study a text very deeply. The people are my text. I study their words and what their words sound like, over and over again.
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You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the character. And so this led me to interview people.
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