Anna Deavere Smith Quotes

My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish.

Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere - the power of the human imagination to keep going, to imagine a better tomorrow.

We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.

Hope is like a path in the countryside. Originally, there is nothing - but as people walk this way again and again, a path appears.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.

We're all dreamers.

I believed totally in the possibilities implied in the series. I never thought of it as fantasy. Far from it.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

You have to believe that things can be bigger than what you see in front of you in order to move forward.

You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

Everybody's a dreamer.

Some men see things as they are and say “Why?” I dream things that never were and say, “Why not?”

Neither wisdom nor good will is now dominant. Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

We have lots of ideas, lots of dreams.

I think we need to dream.

It's very important that we keep our imagination, which is our capacity to open the future, awake at a time at which the urge to collapse into the fetal position is high.

It's good to dream, and I was born a dreamer.

I believe in dreaming.

Hope is a path on the mountainside. At first there is no path. But then there are people passing that way. And there is a path.