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I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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My work is about giving voice to the unheard, and reiterating the voice of the heard in such a way that you question, or re-examine, what is the truth.
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For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.
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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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When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots,' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not.
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You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.
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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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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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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 feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.
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Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.
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I am lucky: I have fantastic doctors and a fantastic dentist.
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