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Rhetoric is what shapes history, if not truth.
— Anna Deavere Smith
Art simply can't be stopped.
— Anna Deavere Smith
Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides.
— Anna Deavere Smith
Discipline - both mental and physical - is crucial.
— Anna Deavere Smith
Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.
— Anna Deavere Smith
Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.
— Anna Deavere Smith
If you say a word often enough it becomes you.
— Anna Deavere Smith
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.
— Anna Deavere Smith
I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.
— Anna Deavere Smith
I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.
— Anna Deavere Smith
My job in my work is not to acquire power; it's to question power.
— Anna Deavere Smith
Identity is an assemblage of constellations.
— Anna Deavere Smith
There's not a lot of flash about me.
— Anna Deavere Smith
Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.
— Anna Deavere Smith
People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.
— Anna Deavere Smith
Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America.
— Anna Deavere Smith
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.
— Anna Deavere Smith
That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.
— Anna Deavere Smith
Some people study a text very deeply. The people are my text. I study their words and what their words sound like, over and over again.
— Anna Deavere Smith
For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.
— Anna Deavere Smith
I am lucky: I have fantastic doctors and a fantastic dentist.
— Anna Deavere Smith
Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.
— Anna Deavere Smith
Over time, my students have gotten richer and more educated.
— Anna Deavere Smith
I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.
— Anna Deavere Smith
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.
— Anna Deavere Smith
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.
— Anna Deavere Smith
I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.
— Anna Deavere Smith
Each person has a literature inside them.
— Anna Deavere Smith
You are an explorer. You understand that every time you go into the studio, you are after something that does not yet exist.
— Anna Deavere Smith
You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.
— Anna Deavere Smith
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.
— Anna Deavere Smith
To live your life well, and have respect for what came before or after - there's a strong respect for that in African culture.
— Anna Deavere Smith
I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.'
— Anna Deavere Smith
You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.
— Anna Deavere Smith
In my own life I'm frequently in predominantly white atmospheres.
— Anna Deavere Smith
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.
— Anna Deavere Smith
I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas.
— Anna Deavere Smith
When you think about it, words can break your heart, or they can change your day.
— Anna Deavere Smith
I have never been in a violent movie or television show.
— Anna Deavere Smith
Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.
— Anna Deavere Smith
Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.
— Anna Deavere Smith
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.
— Anna Deavere Smith
I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.
— Anna Deavere Smith
I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image.
— Anna Deavere Smith
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.
— Anna Deavere Smith
Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning.
— Anna Deavere Smith
I don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.
— Anna Deavere Smith
Art requires that you make something else exist that is a representation of what your feeling is, or your idea.
— Anna Deavere Smith
I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.
— Anna Deavere Smith
Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.
— Anna Deavere Smith
I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.
— Anna Deavere Smith
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.
— Anna Deavere Smith
Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.
— Anna Deavere Smith
I think what I am is a "convener"; I like to convene people around ideas.
— Anna Deavere Smith
If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.
— Anna Deavere Smith
I am not myself; I am the potential of myself.
— Anna Deavere Smith
You know, all kinds of people inspire me.
— Anna Deavere Smith
Not that many people, even contemporary writers, write about right now.
— Anna Deavere Smith
We owe the government taxes. We owe our creditors interest. What do these powers owe us?
— Anna Deavere Smith
In my profession, I'm around a lot of people whose bodies are their instruments in one way or another.
— Anna Deavere Smith
A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.
— Anna Deavere Smith
I write plays about big, intense subjects.
— Anna Deavere Smith
