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Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.'
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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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If you say a word often enough it becomes you.
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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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I am lucky: I have fantastic doctors and a fantastic dentist.
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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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When I was a kid, my grandfather said that if you say a word often enough, it becomes you. Thinking of that later in life gave me this idea that I could try to become America by learning the words of people from many aspects of the country.
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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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If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.
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You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the character. And so this led me to interview people.
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Art simply can’t be stopped.
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Be more than ready. Be present in your discipline. Remember your gift. Be grateful for your gift and treat it like a gift. Cherish it, take care of it, and pass it on.
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I have never been in a violent movie or television show.
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I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.
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Identity is an assemblage of constellations.
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You are an explorer. You understand that every time you go into the studio, you are after something that does not yet exist.
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I am not myself I am the potential of myself.
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I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.
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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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You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.
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