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Quotes By Anna Deavere Smith

We would like doctors to listen, but the fact is, we better be ready to be able to talk to them. You’re going to have to be an active participant in that conversation, so I’d say the American people are going to need ways of stepping up to the conversation.

Anna Deavere Smith
Fact Talk Ways

I think it’s really important to give yourself a very big question that you’re working on that you can come home to, even if you, you know, are going to have to go without a cup of coffee or even a meal, that that should nourish you.

Anna Deavere Smith
HomeCoffee Question

I think a lot of L.A. is something like USC – this incredible white culture living in the midst of color, and no obvious reaction to it at all. I mean, they have guards at the gate at USC – guards at the gate of a major university! And the guards chase young black boys away – I’ve seen it, chasing 8-year-old boys.

Anna Deavere Smith
Black Living Mean

You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.

Anna Deavere Smith
TimeHold Minds

Suddenly in high school, I’m in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America.

Anna Deavere Smith
High Jewish White

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

Anna Deavere Smith
Angeles Color Green

Over time, my students have gotten richer and more educated.

Anna Deavere Smith
TimeEducated Students

Not that many people, even contemporary writers, write about right now.

Anna Deavere Smith
Writers

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

Anna Deavere Smith
Bodies Profession Whose

In my own life I’m frequently in predominantly white atmospheres.

Anna Deavere Smith
LifeFrequently White

If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.

Anna Deavere Smith
Acting Disappear Supposed

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

Anna Deavere Smith
LoveFilmmaker Resources

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

Anna Deavere Smith
ArtAhead Supposed

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

Anna Deavere Smith
PowerArtists True

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
Lives Pick Spend
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