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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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"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."
"The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival."
"When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement."
"At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement."
"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."
"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."
"So one of the things that happened with integration in the South is they found that the black teachers were much more educated than the white teachers."
"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."
"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."
"I went to a church where you could not sing out loud in the service until you had been saved."
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