"Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.'"

-- Anna Deavere Smith

#People Quotes #Giving Quotes #Vision Quotes

“Art is form struggling to wake from the nightmare of nature.”
“I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt about what was going on around him. I felt the pressures that were on him. You can see what people were writing to him, how they were nudging him.”
“I came into history from a primary concern with mathematics and science. This has been a tremendous help to me as a person and as a historian, although it must be admitted it has served to make my historical interpretations less conventional than may be acceptable of many of my colleagues in the field.”
“Silence is safer than speech.”
“It was good to get a few days off after the number of games we had. Now it's back to reality.”
“You can't be both a painter and a musician and master anything. You can't. And live a life.”
“I may have been born yesterday, but I stayed up all night.”

Source : "Fictional character: Bleek". "Mo' Better Blues", www.imdb.com. 1990.
“Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling.”

Source : Interview with Michael Koresky, reverseshot.org. November 10, 2005.

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