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Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.
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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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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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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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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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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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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I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.
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I happen to be a hopeaholic. I tend to look at problems as an opportunity to do some work.
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I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.
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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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Identity is an assemblage of constellations.
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My job in my work is not to acquire power it's to question power.
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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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You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.
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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 that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.
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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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I don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.
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Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.
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