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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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I don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.
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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 went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.
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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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Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides.
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Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.
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Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.
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You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we're all on a million different kinds of diets, and different kinds of things that we do for exercise.
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That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.
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Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.
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Then everyone leaves, and you are left, each night, to your own devices with a crowd of interesting people - most of whom you don't know - sitting in the dark.
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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 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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Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America.
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Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.
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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 love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.
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I have a lot of optimism about new doctors because I think it's really clear that it's a lot of hard work and no guarantee of a lot of money.
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Those in the margins are always trying to get to the center, and those at the center, frequently in the name of tradition, are trying to keep the margins at a distance.
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I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.
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