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You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.
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 call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators the haute couture of language.
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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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For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.
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Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.
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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 would love to have been a documentary filmmaker I just didn't have the resources to do that.
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I happen to be a hopeaholic. I tend to look at problems as an opportunity to do some work.
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Identity is an assemblage of constellations.
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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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I have never been in a violent movie or television show.
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Self-esteem does not come from surrounding yourself with people and things that seem to increase your value. Real self-esteem is an integration of an inner-value with things in the world around 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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Use your time to bathe yourself in the gift. Move your hand across the canvas. Go to museums. Make this into an obsession.
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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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Each person has a literature inside them. But when people lose language, when they have to experiment with putting their thoughts together on the spot-that's what I love most. That's where character lives.
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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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That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.
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I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their lives.
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If you say a word often enough it becomes you.
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