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.

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• Anna Deavere Smith:

  Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the ti

• Anna Deavere Smith:

  I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upsi

• Anna Deavere Smith:

  You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.

• Anna Deavere Smith:

  Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.

• Anna Deavere Smith:

  I don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.

• Anna Deavere Smith:

  Each person has a literature inside them.

• Anna Deavere Smith:

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

• Anna Deavere Smith:

  In my profession, I'm around a lot of people whose bodies are their instruments in one way or anoth

• Anna Deavere Smith:

  You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we're all on

• Anna Deavere Smith:

  I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.