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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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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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Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.
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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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My job in my work is not to acquire power it's to question power.
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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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I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to.
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