Quotes by : Anna Deavere Smith

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

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

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.

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

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

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

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

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.