Anna Deavere Smith Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)
Anna Deavere Smith quotes and sayings page 4 (74 year old actress). Here's quote # 31 through 40 out of the 68 we have for her.
“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.”
“The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.”
“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.”
“I write plays about big, intense subjects.”
“Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.”
“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.”
“Because of the generation in which I came into the world, there were expectations. Of course there were expectations. It was something having to do with being a respectable Negro woman who would make the people in Baltimore proud.”
“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.”
“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.”
“We owe the government taxes. We owe our creditors interest. What do these powers owe us?”
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