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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
Personal Development

"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

"If he did not speak his tale, it grew dank and musty, it shrank inside him, while with the telling the tale stayed fresh and virtuous."

"Abundance in life comes from generosity."

"To live in bliss, love everything, including people, unconditionally."
Explore more quotes by Bernice Johnson Reagon


"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."


"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."


"And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs."


"I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience."


"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."
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