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….

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 ….

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

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.

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….

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

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..

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 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 ….

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 ….

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….

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….