Quotes by : Anne Deavere Smith

Speaking calls for risk, speaking calls for a sense of what one has to lose. Not just what one has to....

Some people use language as a mask. And some want to create designed language that appears to reveal....

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

I take the words I can get and try to occupy them. Using the idea that my grandfather gave me — “If....

Yet from time to time we are betrayed by language, if not in the words themselves, in the rhythm with....

The creation of language is the creation of a fiction. The minute we speak we are in that fiction. It’s....