Quotes by : Anna Deavere Smith

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rhetoric is what shapes history, if not truth.