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What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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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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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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Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.
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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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I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.
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