Anna Deavere Smith citations

“Each person has a literature inside them.”

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Anna Deavere Smith

“We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.”

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Anna Deavere Smith

“I do believe that character is a process, that truth is a process, and I am not interested in winning and losing…”

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Anna Deavere Smith

On character building in “Wearing the Words: An Interview with Anna Deavere Smith” https://tricycle.org/magazine/wearing-words-interview-anna-deavere-smith/ in the Buddhist Review (Fall 1994)