"But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public."

Bernice Johnson Reagon, American Musician

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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 to a general public."

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"The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... and I'd never heard it before in my life."

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"I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance."

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"There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up."

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"Most people come out of their Ph.D. experience trying to prove themselves, trying to get ahead, trying to get published. You're scared everybody else is going to do your research and get your topic."

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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 to figure out what that means for me at this point in my life."

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