"So one of the things that happened with……" — Bernice Johnson Reagon
"So one of the things that happened with integration in the South is they found that the black teachers were much more educated than the white teachers."
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Bernice Johnson Reagon
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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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