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Art simply can’t be stopped.
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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Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to 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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My job in my work is not to acquire power it's to question power.
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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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Then everyone leaves, and you are left, each night, to your own devices with a crowd of interesting people - most of whom you don't know - sitting in the dark.
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