Education Quote by Anna Deavere Smith

“I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.”

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I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.

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Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

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I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their…

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

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The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the…

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I have never been in a violent movie or television show.

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Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning.

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Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.

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Self-esteem does not come from surrounding yourself with people and things that seem to increase your value. Real self-esteem is an integration of an…

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People realize that we're very good at sending people to war, but we're not good at taking care of them. And people are coming back from war now; years ago, they would have been killed, now they're wounded; and they're coming back alive and with post-traumatic stress. So, I think Americans are sensible enough to know we've got to figure…

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Many people are afraid to talk about race because it's so emotionally loaded. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it. Every day,…

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Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.

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For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow…

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“If one has not a head of steel it will burst; if he has not within it a brain of liquid quicksilver, he will not obtain in it a looking-glass; if he has not a skin of tin he will not be able to endure the toil of education; if he has not leaden posteriors he will not be able…

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“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper. And now that I can take it . . . now that I can finally do it . . . I'm really…

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