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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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Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides.
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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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