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I am lucky: I have fantastic doctors and a fantastic dentist.

~Anna Deavere Smith

Topics: Am Dentist Doctors Fantastic Lucky I Am

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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.

~Anna Deavere Smith

Topics: America Back Believe Crow Hard How Jim Jim Crow Know Living Look Really Schools Segregated Segregation Were You

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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.

~Anna Deavere Smith

Topics: Artists Caught Create Deeply Happening Matter Middle Own Pen People Pick Reality Resonates Rest Something Take Time Translate Up

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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.

~Anna Deavere Smith

Topics: Because Down Exposed Interested Lot Many Moment Possibilities Things Upside Upside Down

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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.

~Anna Deavere Smith

Topics: Hard Hard Work Hearing Heart Just Listen Listening Someone Sound Tells Very Want Word Work You

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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

Topics: About Attacked Be Careful Careful Exactly Find Mouth Out People Power Right Right Word Word

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Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

~Anna Deavere Smith

Topics: Friendship Medication Underrated Wildly

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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.

~Anna Deavere Smith

Topics: Deep Disrespect Fear Little Live Other Outside Politics Race Somehow Something Taught Us Very Which

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Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.

~Anna Deavere Smith

Topics: Experience Learning Makes More Think Tunnel Us

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Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

~Anna Deavere Smith

Topics: Constellations Identity

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actress

Born: September 18th, 1950

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