American - Actress | September 18, 1950 -
In my own life I'm frequently in predominantly white atmospheres.
Anna Deavere Smith
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There's not a lot of flash about me.
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If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.
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A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.
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I have never been in a violent movie or television show.
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I talk about race a lot. It's been my work ever since I came out of acting school. But it's true that in a way talking about race is a taboo. Because so many of our debates about race have to do not with race but with what we are willing to see, what we will not see and what we don't want to see.
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Many people are afraid to talk about race because it's so emotionally loaded. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it. Every day, our vocabulary seems more and more inadequate.
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Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.
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