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When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any jo

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

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