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

- Anna Deavere Smith
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Over time, my students have gotten richer and more educated.

I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image.

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

I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.'

The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.

Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.

People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.

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 lives.

Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness of this tragedy, there's going to be a violent awakening we don't want. The question is, can we wake up?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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