Assemblage Quote by Anna Deavere Smith Download Open image “Identity is an assemblage of constellations.” — Anna Deavere Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Assemblage Constellations Identity Individuality
Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
Identity means "how do I get known? How do I expressmyself?" and that's generally what I'm helping somebody do. It may be three dimensional,… — Paula Scher Copy Share Image
Constellations have always been troublesome things to name. If you give one of them a fanciful name, it will always refuse to live up… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Identity is the history that has gone into bone and blood and reshaped the flesh. Identity is not what we were but what we… — Nick Joaquín Copy Share Image
“It is instructive to note that different cultures "discovered" completely different constellations in the sky, a fact that is more consistent with the idea… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
“the social moulds civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Ideas are to objects as constellations are to stars [translated from Trauerspiel, 1928]. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment. — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
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… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down. — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning. — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities. — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
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… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
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… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing. — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
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,… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you. — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
The paleontological evidence before us today clearly demonstrates ordered progressive change with the successive development of new faunal and floral assemblages through the changing… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Whether it is photography, assemblage art or filmmaking, my work is to see beneath the surface. — Christophe Agou Copy Share Image
I am intrigued with combining the remnant of memories, fragments of relics and ordinary objects, with the components of technology. It's a way of… — Betye Saar Copy Share Image
There were a lot of apocalypses that didn't make it into this assemblage because they didn't suit the world. And defining that world and… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
We are all incarnate Buddhas. We just have not realized it deeply. We have not moved the mind - what our friend Don Juan… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A tribute . . . is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism, which adorn the characters selected to devise and adopt… — George Washington Copy Share Image
In the great battle of life, no brilliancy of intellect, no perfection of bodily development, will count when weighed in the balance against the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready-made products, we must conclude that all the paintings in the world… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all absurdity. It… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The universe, that vast assemblage of every thing that exists, presents only matter and motion: the whole offers to our contemplation, nothing but an… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
See what an atmosphere of holiness is here the pure air of the Ganga what an assemblage of Sadhus will you find anywhere a… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
