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Bernice Johnson Reagon

"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are."

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"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are."

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"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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"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 learned that if you bring black people together, you bring them together with a song. To this day, I don't understand how people think they can bring anybody together without a song."
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"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."
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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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"The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mall in Washington so American tourists could walk through America, and in their minds everything on the mall would be American."
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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 actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement."
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Bernice Johnson Reagon
"When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement."
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Bernice Johnson Reagon
"I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance."
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Bernice Johnson Reagon
"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."
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