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I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.
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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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My job in my work is not to acquire power it's to question power.
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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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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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Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.
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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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People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.
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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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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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In my profession, I'm around a lot of people whose bodies are their instruments in one way or another.
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I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.
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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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