Anna Deavere Smith Quotes About School

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

  Anna Deavere Smith

  School, White, America

• You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living in segregated schools, it's hard to believe that it was America, but it really was.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Believe, School, Jim Crow Laws

  "Anna Deavere Smith: Let Me Down Easy". Interview with Steve Mirsky, www.scientificamerican.com. December 20, 2010.

• 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.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Fashion, Jobs, Nice

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