"Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America."

--

Anna Deavere Smith

#School Quotes #White Quotes #America Quotes

“People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.”
“When people are feeling insecure, they'd rather have someone who is strong and wrong rather than somebody who is weak and right.”
“If your ceiling is falling down, don't you call someone in? I apply the same principle to myself.”
“I've always made music - pretty much since I was born.”
“I'm a pretty average guy and want to keep a low profile. I don't want the world necessarily to know about me.”
“No adversity is in kind or degree peculiar to us; but if we survey the conditions of other men (of our brethren everywhere, of our neighbours all about us), and compare our case with theirs, we shall find that we have many consorts and associates in adversity, most as ill, many far worse bestead than ourselves; whence it must be a great fondness and perverseness to be displeased that we are not exempted from, but exposed to bear a share in the common troubles and burdens of mankind.”
“The red sole was born from red nail polish. I am giving back to beauty what the shoes took from the nails many years ago.”
“Migration - whether emigration or return - at the micro level is an individual choice, and government both at the Centre and the states have role only to facilitate the decision of the individuals.”

You may also like:

Bill Irwin
Actor
Edie Falco
Film actress
Eve Best
Stage Director
Jonathan Demme
Filmmaker
Merritt Wever
Actress
Peter Facinelli
Actor
Rosemarie DeWitt
Actress
Stephen Wallem
Television actor
Liz Brixius
Television writer