Bernice Johnson Reagon Quotes

• Los retos de la vida no deben paralizarte, sino ayudarte a descubrir quién eres.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Motivational, Stay Strong, Business

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• If you're in a coalition and you're comfortable, you know it's not a broad enough coalition.

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  Enough, Broads, Coalitions

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• If, in moving through your life, you find yourself lost, go back to the last place where you knew who you were, and what you were doing, and start from there.

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  Moving, Finding Yourself, Lasts

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• If every moment is sacred and if you are amazed and in awe most of the time when you find yourself breathing and not crazy, then you are in a state of constant thankfulness, worship and humility.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Crazy, Humility, Breathing

  "The Songs Are Free". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. February 6, 1991.

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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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  Paz, Ubuntu, Personas

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• If we dwell in a community that is comfortable, then it's probably not broad enough a coalition.

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  Community, Democracy, Enough

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• Today whenever women gather together it is not necessarily nurturing. It is coalition building. And if you feel the strain, you may be doing some good work.

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  Work, Together, May

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• La maternidad/crianza es una fuerza vital y un proceso que establece relaciones en todo el universo.

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  Establishing Relationships, Process, Force

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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.

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  Jail, Voice, Movement

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• 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.

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  Canción, Pensamiento, Gente

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• Creo que el Movimiento por los Derechos Civiles cambió esa trayectoria para mí. Lo primero que hice fue dejar la escuela. Fui suspendido por mi participación en las manifestaciones del Movimiento en mi ciudad natal, diciembre, 1961

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  School, Thinking, Rights

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• Es lógico que, sea cual sea el tema, resulte más convincente si se ofrece al público una variedad de perspectivas y se pueden cruzar disciplinas. Y no tienes que controlar lo que la gente saca de ello.

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  Discipline, People, Perspective

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• Coming up in the African-American culture, we were taught that we belonged to the universe and society was wrong in the way it dealt with us. We had to learn to express and affirm values not from the winning position.

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  Winning, African American, Culture

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• The Civil Rights Movement also reaffirmed me as a singer. It taught me that singing was not entertainment, it was something else.

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  Rights, Singing, Movement

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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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  Song, Thinking, Proof

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• I just don't think one person has that much to contribute to any subject

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  Thinking, Persons, Subjects

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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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  Mean, Years, Twenties

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• 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.

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  Teacher, White, Black

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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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  People, Asking, Firsts

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• When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.

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  School, Rights, Culture

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• Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment.

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  Impact, Environment, Academic

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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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  Rights, People, Focus

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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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  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.

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  School, Festivals, Graduates

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• 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

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Research, Just Being, Producers

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