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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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Use your time to bathe yourself in the gift. Move your hand across the canvas. Go to museums. Make this into an obsession.
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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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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 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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I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators the haute couture of language.
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Each person has a literature inside them.
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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.
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For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.
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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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A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.
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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 happen to be a hopeaholic. I tend to look at problems as an opportunity to do some work.
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Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning.
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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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You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.
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I mean, I think a healthy country is a country where people are healthy physically, and a smart country is a country where people are educated.
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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 would love to have been a documentary filmmaker I just didn't have the resources to do that.
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President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that's what we need most in our country today.
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I have never been in a violent movie or television show.
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