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If you say a word often enough it becomes you.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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Art should take what is complex and render it simply. It takes a lot of skill, human understanding, stamina, courage, energy, and heart to do that.
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I never know when somebody's going to knock on the door of my own unconscious in a way that I wouldn't have anticipated.
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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 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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Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning.
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Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.
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I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.
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I think what I am is a convener I like to convene people around ideas.
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You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.
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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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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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Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound touchy-feely it is not. It is very hard work.
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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 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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I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker I just didn't have the resources to do that.
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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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Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides.
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Art simply can’t be stopped.
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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 see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.
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