Anna Deavere Smith

“I miss taking out my thick sweaters and wool blazers in September. I miss seeing intrepid New Yorkers on cross country skis in SoHo in January. I leave New York every summer to avoid the dripping humidity. But what if there’s no escape and much of the earth feels like a Mississippi summer? Think we’ll get through by the skin of our teeth? We are the only deus ex machine in sight.”