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• I went to a church where you could not sing out loud in the service until you had been saved

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Church, Loud, Saved

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• 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

  School, Festivals, Graduates

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• 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.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Running, Sweet, Years

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• I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Sweet, Rocks, Balance

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• 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.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Jobs, Community, African American

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• 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

  Song, Commercial Music, Rights

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• Welcome to prekindergarten! You will not die if you discover that there are more lines out there than just your own. In fact, you'll discover that you will have an advantage if you know more of them!

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Justice, Lines, Facts

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• 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

  People, Trying, Research

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• What would you be like if you had white hair and had not given up your principles? It might be wise as you deal with coalition efforts to think about the possibilities of going for fifty years.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Wise, Thinking, Hair

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