Anna Deavere Smith Quotes

Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.

Each person has a literature inside them. But when people lose language when they have to experimen...

Well, the terrible thing right now, and I don't know the statistics, but there's a growing concern i...

Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated f...

I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That w...

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

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

The individuals inside are frequently fighting that their individual voices be heard, while the wall...

President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just i...

I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about mor...

Art requires that you make something else exist that is a representation of what your feeling is, or...

I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home -...

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be ...

I think we can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very m...

Rhetoric is what shapes history, if not truth.