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Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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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 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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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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