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I think what I am is a convener I like to convene people around ideas.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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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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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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My job in my work is not to acquire power it's to question power.
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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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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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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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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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Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.
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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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For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.
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You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.
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Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.
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Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America.
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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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Each person has a literature inside them.
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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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Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.
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