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I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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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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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 mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.
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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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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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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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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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I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.
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Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.
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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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Art simply can’t be stopped.
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Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.
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I have a lot of optimism about new doctors because I think it's really clear that it's a lot of hard work and no guarantee of a lot of money.
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I think what I am is a convener I like to convene people around ideas.
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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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