Anna Deavere Smith Quote
I said, Los Angeles burned but Los Angeles is but one city experiencing this kind of hopelessness and despair, I said, and we need a job program with stipends … I said, These young people really, ya know, are not in anybody’s statistics or data. They’ve been dropped off of everybody’s agenda. They live from grandmama to mama to girlfriend. I said, We now got young people who are twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two years old who have never worked a day of their lives. I said, These are the young people in our streets and they are angry and they are frustrated.
Anna Deavere Smith
I said, Los Angeles burned but Los Angeles is but one city experiencing this kind of hopelessness and despair, I said, and we need a job program with stipends … I said, These young people really, ya know, are not in anybody’s statistics or data. They’ve been dropped off of everybody’s agenda. They live from grandmama to mama to girlfriend. I said, We now got young people who are twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two years old who have never worked a day of their lives. I said, These are the young people in our streets and they are angry and they are frustrated.
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About Anna Deavere Smith
Smith is a recipient of The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize (2013). In 2015 she was selected as the Jefferson Lecturer by the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is the founding director of the Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue at New York University.