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Bernice Johnson Reagon quotes

American Musician October 4, 1942

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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. Bernice Johnson Reagon
Bernice Johnson Reagon quote: "Life's challenges aren't suppose to paralyze you, they're..."
Life's challenges aren't suppose to paralyze you, they're suppose to help you discover who you are. Bernice Johnson Reagon
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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Bernice Johnson Reagon
I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961. 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. Bernice Johnson Reagon
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. 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. Bernice Johnson Reagon
Bernice Johnson Reagon quote: "When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture..."
When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement. 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. Bernice Johnson Reagon
Bernice Johnson Reagon quote: "I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was..."
I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance. Bernice Johnson Reagon
Bernice Johnson Reagon quote: "I just don't think one person has that much to contribute to..."
I just don't think one person has that much to contribute to any subject. Bernice Johnson Reagon

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