"One of the biggest things I understood in……" — Bernice Johnson Reagon
"One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of the country and since."
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33 Quotes by Bernice Johnson Reagon
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If we dwell in a community that is comfortable, then it's probably not broad enough a coalition.
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The Civil Rights Movement also reaffirmed me as a singer. It taught me that singing was not entertainment, it was…
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If, in moving through your life, you find yourself lost, go back to the last place where you knew who…
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I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance.
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At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music…
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And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of…
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I just don't think one person has that much to contribute to any subject
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If I had been at a University I don't think I would have been able to have the experience I…
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I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I…
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But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting…
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Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some…
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The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mall in Washington so American…
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