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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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At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was…
— Bernice Johnson Reagon
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We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of…
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I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.
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Peace is not just a colored ribbon. It's more than a wristband or a t-shirt. It's not just a donation or a…
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