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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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"Why is the church failing so miserably in impacting the nations of the earth?"
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"Does the church offer answers for the complexions of 21st century problems?"
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"It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there."
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"I just want you to know you aren't going to church with a crook."
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"I think if the church did what they were supposed to do we wouldn't have anyone sleeping on the streets."
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"I like the aesthetics of the Church."
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"Meanwhile the Church more and more provided for the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, by practically chaining His influence to the hierarchy and the sacraments."
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"At the end of 1795 and beginning of 1796, I was ordered to write to the Church ministers."
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"There are enormously gifted Episcopal priests around this church who are gay and lesbian, some of whom are partnered, who would make wonderful bishops and they're going to be nominated and they're going to be elected."
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"A church debt is the devil's salary."
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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."
Life
"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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"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."
Religion
"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."
People
"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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"And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs."
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"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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