I have a lot of optimism about new doctors because I think it's really clear that it's a lot of hard work and no guarantee of a lot of money.
From Anna Deavere Smith
I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.
I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.
Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.
My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.
I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.
People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.
Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.
Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.
Each person has a literature inside them.
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