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Bernice Johnson Reagon has 42 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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 something else.
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If, in moving through your life, you find yourself lost, go back to the last place where you knew who you were,…
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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 industry was…
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And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs.
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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 had in…
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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 still plan…
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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 that research…
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Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had…
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The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mall in Washington so American tourists could…
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African-American women who develop breast cancer are more likely to die from the disease than White women of the same age. Survival…
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Yeah, remember, under the Bush administration, welfare — I mean, excuse me, poverty among African Americans and among single unmarried women, poverty…
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I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance…
— Rodney Alexander
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The potential significance of Black feminist thought goes far beyond demonstrating that African-American women can be theorists. Like Black feminist practice, which…
— Patricia Hill Collins
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I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.
— Leah Ward Sears
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In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity.
— Omar Bongo
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The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas…
— Bernice Johnson Reagon
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In 2008, the Democrats made a great effort among African-American voters, and they did increase their turnout considerably, and among Latino voters.
— Judy Woodruff
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Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with…
— Aberjhani
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