Bernice Johnson Reagon Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

12 Famous Quotes by Bernice Johnson Reagon
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“Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.”
Challenge Quotes
“Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.”
Help Quotes
“And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“As the years of work passed at the Smithsonian as a scholar, I realized that Howard had trained me well for the work I wanted to do.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“I just don't think one person has that much to contribute to any subject.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
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