Quotes by : Anna Deavere Smith

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

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 -....

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

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.