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Bernice Johnson Reagon

"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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Donna Grant

"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."

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Donna Grant

"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."

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Donna Grant

"Music fills the void between the heart and soul and connects them in heavenly delights."

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Donna Grant

"I listen to music constantly while writing."

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Donna Grant

"Music heard so deeplyThat it is not heard at all, butyou are the musicWhile the music lasts."

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Donna Grant

"Music is the song of eternal love which touches the soul and fills us with joy."

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Donna Grant

"I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation."

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Donna Grant

"Music is the language of the universe, which everyone, including all animals, can understand."

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Donna Grant

"Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once."

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Donna Grant

"Music is the primordial language of life. That is why we love it so much. Actually every animal can hear and understand music better than we do."

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Bernice Johnson Reagon
"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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Bernice Johnson Reagon
"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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Bernice Johnson Reagon
"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
"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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Bernice Johnson Reagon
"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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Bernice Johnson Reagon
"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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Bernice Johnson Reagon
"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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Bernice Johnson Reagon
"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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Bernice Johnson Reagon
"I went to a church where you could not sing out loud in the service until you had been saved."

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

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