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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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Baltimore
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If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.
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The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.
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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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My job in my work is not to acquire power it's to question power.
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Some people study a text very deeply. The people are my text. I study their words and what their words sound like, over and over again.
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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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Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides.
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What my work is, is my approach to it. It's the practice. And my work is about the effort that I make to get there. And I think if there's anything artistic, it's in that middle space.
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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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