Anna Deavere Smith Ideas Quotations

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.

For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.

I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas.

You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.

I think what I am is a "convener"; I like to convene people around ideas.