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A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.


Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good name can open ways for your great grand children.
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BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female ...
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, a...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave sc...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I w...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance.
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON I just don't think one person has that much to contribute to any subject.
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who ha...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing researc...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the comm...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON As the years of work passed at the Smithsonian as a scholar, I realized that Howard had trained me w...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs.
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you a...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences,...
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritu...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON Today whenever women gather together it is not necessarily nurturing. It is coalition building. An...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON I learned that if you bring black people together, you bring them together with a song. To this day,...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail . ....
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON Today whenever women gather together it is not necessarily nurturing. It is coalition building. And ...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON If you're in a coalition and you're comfortable, you know it's not a broad enough coalition
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up.
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