I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance.
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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.Bernice Johnson Reagon
If I had been at a University I don't think I would have been able to have the experience I had in my Smithsonian work. I don't think I have been as successful.
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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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There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up.
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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 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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