"Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.“

-Anna Deavere Smith

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"I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it."

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"When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots,' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not."

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"My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better."

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"To live your life well, and have respect for what came before or after - there's a strong respect for that in African culture."

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"Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other."

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"Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends."

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