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 Read Quote
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. Anna Deavere Smith Read Quote
President Obama called for a ‘we’ nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that’s what we need most in our country today. Anna Deavere Smith Read Quote
I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas. Anna Deavere Smith Read Quote
I mean, I think that – as an actress, in particular, I’m basically a fool, and I see the world upside down. Anna Deavere Smith Read Quote
In my profession, I’m around a lot of people whose bodies are their instruments in one way or another. Anna Deavere Smith Read Quote
I never know when somebody’s going to knock on the door of my own unconscious in a way that I wouldn’t have anticipated. Anna Deavere Smith Read Quote
