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Anna Deavere Smith Quote: “I am not myself; I am the potential of myself.”

51. “I am not myself; I am the potential of myself.”

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Anna Deavere Smith Quote: “My job in my work is not to acquire power; it’s to question power.”

52. “My job in my work is not to acquire power; it’s to question power.”

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Anna Deavere Smith Quote: “Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.”

53. “Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.”

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Anna Deavere Smith Quote: “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.”

54. “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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Anna Deavere Smith Quote: “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.”

55. “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.”

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Anna Deavere Smith Quote: “I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.”

56. “I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.”

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Anna Deavere Smith Quote: “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.”

57. “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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Anna Deavere Smith Quote: “I mean, I think that – as an actress, in particular, I’m basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.”

58. “I mean, I think that – as an actress, in particular, I’m basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.”

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Anna Deavere Smith Quote: “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.”

59. “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.”

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Anna Deavere Smith Quote: “A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.”

60. “A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.”

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Anna Deavere Smith Quote: “I have never been in a violent movie or television show.”

61. “I have never been in a violent movie or television show.”

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Anna Deavere Smith Quote: “In my profession, I’m around a lot of people whose bodies are their instruments in one way or another.”

62. “In my profession, I’m around a lot of people whose bodies are their instruments in one way or another.”

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Anna Deavere Smith Quote: “Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.”

63. “Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.”

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Anna Deavere Smith Quote: “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.”

64. “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.”

— Anna Deavere Smith

Anna Deavere Smith Quote: “I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.”

65. “I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.”

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Anna Deavere Smith Quote: “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.”

66. “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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Anna Deavere Smith Quote: “I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.”

67. “I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.”

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Anna Deavere Smith Quote: “I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.”

68. “I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.”

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Anna Deavere Smith Quote: “Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.”

69. “Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.”

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Anna Deavere Smith Quote: “I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn’t have the resources to do that.”

70. “I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn’t have the resources to do that.”

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Anna Deavere Smith Quote: “When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses – it was right after ‘Roots,’ and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not.”

71. “When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses – it was right after ‘Roots,’ and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not.”

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Anna Deavere Smith Quote: “If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I’m listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won’t get anything unless I get those things out of the way.”

72. “If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I’m listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won’t get anything unless I get those things out of the way.”

— Anna Deavere Smith

Anna Deavere Smith Quote: “That artists are called to be more responsible and ‘true’ is a tip of hat to their power.”

73. “That artists are called to be more responsible and ‘true’ is a tip of hat to their power.”

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Anna Deavere Smith Quote: “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.”

74. “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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Anna Deavere Smith Quote: “I am interested in personal stories because that’s when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.”

75. “I am interested in personal stories because that’s when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.”

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Anna Deavere Smith Quote: “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.”

76. “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.”

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Anna Deavere Smith Quote: “Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides.”

77. “Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides.”

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Anna Deavere Smith Quote: “I think it’s really important to give yourself a very big question that you’re working on that you can come home to.”

78. “I think it’s really important to give yourself a very big question that you’re working on that you can come home to.”

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Anna Deavere Smith Quote: “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?”

79. “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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Anna Deavere Smith Quote: “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.”

80. “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.”

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Anna Deavere Smith Quote: “Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning.”

81. “Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning.”

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Anna Deavere Smith Quote: “Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.”

82. “Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.”

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