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My job in my work is not to acquire power it's to question power.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things.
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Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.
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Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.
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Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.'
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I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.
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