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

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 bri….

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

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 ….

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….

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 g….

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 o….

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 ….

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 fr….

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 goo….

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

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

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 ….

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.

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….

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….

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..

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 ….

And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs..

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

In fact when Sweet Honey was ten years old it was too big for me to run, and I knew it, but I ran it for another thirteen years because I couldn't co….