American - Actress | September 18, 1950 -
Each person has a literature inside them.
Anna Deavere Smith
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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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I am lucky: I have fantastic doctors and a fantastic dentist.
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Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.
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I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.
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Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.
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I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.
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You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living in segregated schools, it's hard to believe that it was America, but it really was.
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Identity is an assemblage of constellations.
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Well, the terrible thing right now, and I don't know the statistics, but there's a growing concern in some communities about how rapidly people are sent from school to jail, how quickly they're put into the criminal justice system. And of course the rapidly growing number of brown people, both men and women, in prison. And this is terrible.
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My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.
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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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