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Mothering/nurturing is a vital force and process establishing relationships throughout the universe.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

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Establishing

I just don’t think one person has that much to contribute to any subject
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Persons Subject
When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Culture
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.
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Commercial
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.
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Hair
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.
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Research Trying
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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May Together
Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.
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If I had been at a University I don’t think I would have been able to have the experience I had in my Smithsonian work. I don’t think I have been as successful
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Able Successful
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
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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Lasts Moving
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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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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Asking Firsts
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
I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961

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I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961
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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.
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Breathing Humility
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.

BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

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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Culture Winning

Mothering/nurturing is a vital force and process establishing relationships throughout the universe.

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