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

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

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

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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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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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Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

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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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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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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.

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