African american Quote by Bernice Johnson Reagon

One of the things that I first remember wanting to be was a 'geolisty' - that was the best I could say when I…

— Craig Mello

I majored in directing. However, I did spend some time at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, so I am…

— Chadwick Boseman

We're the curator for the African-American experience for the past, present and future. That's my job.

— Linda Johnson Rice

I did most of my Ph.D. in Washington. They used to bring black kids through the lab for tours, and I was one of…

— Carl Hart

I am the first African-American chairman of any major conservation organization in history. That's a big step.

— Jerome Ringo

If I had been at a University I don't think I would have been able to have the experience I had in my Smithsonian…

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

My first job out of school was to do basic research at Johns Hopkins University's applied physics lab.

— Gordon Moore

I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I still plan to figure…

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

I also got a chance to go to the American Museum in New York, which helped my interest.

— Robert T. Bakker

I attended the Women's March on Washington with a group of artists, curators, and art-world professionals.

— Zoe Buckman

I graduated from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill with degrees in journalism and Spanish in 2001 and landed my first on-air job…

— Brooke Baldwin

I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I went full-time at the Smithsonian in…

— Bernice Johnson Reagon