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Identity is an assemblage of constellations.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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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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Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.
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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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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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Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound touchy-feely it is not. It is very hard work.
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I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.
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We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that fact causes you despair . . . pick another profession. Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities . . . We have to create our own standards of discipline.
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I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their lives.
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You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.
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If you say a word often enough it becomes you.
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Each person has a literature inside them.
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Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness of this tragedy, there's going to be a violent awakening we don't want. The question is, can we wake up?
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I have never been in a violent movie or television show.
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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 mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.
Anna Deavere Smith
A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.
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I don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.
Anna Deavere Smith
You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living in segregated schools, it's hard to believe that it was America, but it really was.
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