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 Read 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. Anna Deavere Smith Read Quote
I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home – if you were a woman, you were writing about being a woman – and I decided not to do that, write about what you know. That’s not what I do. I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination. Anna Deavere Smith Read Quote
That artists are called to be more responsible and ‘true’ is a tip of hat to their power. Anna Deavere Smith Read Quote
Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends. Anna Deavere Smith Read Quote
You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living in segregated schools, it’s hard to believe that it was America, but it really was. Anna Deavere Smith Read 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. Anna Deavere Smith Read Quote
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 Read Quote
You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time. Anna Deavere Smith Read Quote
