Anna Deavere Smith Kids Quotations

I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.

Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning.

When I was a kid, my grandfather said that "if you say a word often enough, it becomes you." Thinking of that later in life gave me this idea that I could try to become America by learning the words of people from many aspects of the country.