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.

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These are some quotes by American author Bernice Johnson Reagon Musician, who was born on October 4, 1942.

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When the culture is strong, you've got this consistency where black people can grow up in these places with this voice just resonating about our special-ness in the universe. And I always say you're in trouble if you get too far away from that core that grounds you.

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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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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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