"Rhetoric is what shapes history, if not truth."
- Anna Deavere Smith
"I think we can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very moment they they have to be more creative than they would have imagined in order to communicate. It's..."
"The individuals inside are frequently fighting that their individual voices be heard, while the walls of the place, which are the mask, and the perception, are reluctant to give over to the voices of ..."
"Art requires that you make something else exist that is a representation of what your feeling is, or your idea."
"We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric."
"Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you."
"Each person has a literature inside them. But when people lose language when they have to experiment with putting their thoughts together on the spot-that's what I love most. That's where character l..."