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Anna Deavere Smith Quotes
Anna Deavere Smith Quotes
Anna Deavere Smith
American
Actress
Born:
Sep 18
,
1950
About
Been
People
Think
Work
You
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You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.
Anna Deavere Smith
Time
You
Minds
More
Idea
Know
Than
Hold
Interesting
I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.'
Anna Deavere Smith
Political
Language
Pundits
Administrators
Call
Couture
Figures
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
Death
You
People
Sick
Say
Come
Hear
Been
Lot
Close
Want
Who
There's not a lot of flash about me.
Anna Deavere Smith
Me
About
Lot
Flash
If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.
Anna Deavere Smith
You
Job
Think
About
Disappear
Supposed
Acting
I have never been in a violent movie or television show.
Anna Deavere Smith
Television
Television Show
Never
Been
Movie
Show
Violent
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.
Anna Deavere Smith
Day
Every Day
People
Every
Our
About
Vocabulary
Seems
More
More And More
Emotionally
Talk
Because
Afraid
Race
Inadequate
Many
Loaded
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
Politics
Fear
Live
Disrespect
Other
Somehow
Something
Outside
Very
Taught
Which
Little
Race
Us
Deep
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