Anna Deavere Smith Home Quotations

I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home - if you were a woman, you were writing about being a woman - and I decided not to do that, write about what you know. That's not what I do. I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.

I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to

I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.