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Anna Deavere Smith is the author of Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, a one-person play whose premiere featured Smith in the sole role. The play is comprised of a series of monologues excerpted from interviews that Smith conducted with citizens of Los Angeles whose lives were affected by the 1992 Los Angeles riots. In this way, Smith invites the audience to revisit this significant moment in history through the eyes of people who lived through the riots. With the exception of Smith’s stage directions, the play is composed entirely of the voices of Smith’s interview subjects. While the play doesn’t have a conventional plot, Smith’s careful selection and assembly of her interview source material forms a cohesive narrative that explores the riots’ themselves, the state of race relations in late 20th-century Los Angeles that allowed them to happen, and how the city might begin to heal and move forward in aftermath of crisis and social upheaval.
Anna Deavere Smith Quotes in Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
The Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 quotes below are all either spoken by Anna Deavere Smith or refer to Anna Deavere Smith. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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I Was Scared
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All I can think of…one bottle,
one shear from one bottle in my father’s car,
he will die!
He will die.
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Trophies
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We spoke out on April 29.
Hoo (real pleasure),
it was flavorful,
it was juicy.
It was, uh,
it was good for the soul.
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Long Day’s Journey into Night
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This is the city we are living in.
It’s our house.
We all live in the same house…
Right, start a fire in the basement
and, you know,
nobody’s gonna be left on the top floor.
It's one house.
And shutting the door in your room,
it doesn’t matter.
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Anna Deavere Smith Quotes in Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
The Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 quotes below are all either spoken by Anna Deavere Smith or refer to Anna Deavere Smith. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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I Was Scared
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All I can think of…one bottle,
one shear from one bottle in my father’s car,
he will die!
He will die.
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Trophies
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We spoke out on April 29.
Hoo (real pleasure),
it was flavorful,
it was juicy.
It was, uh,
it was good for the soul.
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Long Day’s Journey into Night
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This is the city we are living in.
It’s our house.
We all live in the same house…
Right, start a fire in the basement
and, you know,
nobody’s gonna be left on the top floor.
It's one house.
And shutting the door in your room,
it doesn’t matter.
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