Some people study a text very deeply. The people are my text. I study their words and what their words sound like, over and over again.
Anna Deavere SmithI feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.
Anna Deavere SmithWhen I was a kid, my grandfather said that "if you say a word often enough, it becomes you." Thinking of that later in life gave me this idea that I could try to become America by learning the words of people from many aspects of the country.
Anna Deavere Smith