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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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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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I am not myself I am the potential of myself.
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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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Identity is an assemblage of constellations.
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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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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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In my profession, I'm around a lot of people whose bodies are their instruments in one way or another.
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If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.
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Each person has a literature inside them.
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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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I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.
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I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.
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I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.
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Those in the margins are always trying to get to the center, and those at the center, frequently in the name of tradition, are trying to keep the margins at a distance.
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Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.
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Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness of this tragedy, there's going to be a violent awakening we don't want. The question is, can we wake up?
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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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Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.
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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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