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"Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment."
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"An environment of infinite economic expansion is unsustainable in a world of finite resources."
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"Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city."
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"Environmental cleanliness begins with each individual desire to be clean."
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"If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."
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"The human will be the only mammal in history to fully understand that its own self inflicted extinction is well underway."
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"Environmental radiation research is the rent I pay for living on this planet."
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"The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if no other way, we can see the wild an reckless exuberance of our production, and waste seems to be the index."
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"Earth is the holiest place in the Universe, loving the earth, and loving life is the way to generate positive vibrations."
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"I could do a lot of stuff's but the problem is not here it's the place where I am, the crowd which has surrounded and many other factors."
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"Even if the climate change is not real, its funds are real."
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"I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance."
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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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"It makes sense that whatever the topic is, it's more compelling if you can provide the audience with a range of perspectives, and you can cross disciplines. And you don't have to control what people take out of it."
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"Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment."
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"I went to a church where you could not sing out loud in the service until you had been saved."
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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 religion and some people didn't have religion."
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"In fact when Sweet Honey was ten years old it was too big for me to run, and I knew it, but I ran it for another thirteen years because I couldn't convince other people to really do it. And this year, I'm not running it."
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"One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of the country and since."
History


"There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up."
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"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 1974. And I got my doctorate in 1975."
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