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

The Civil Rights Movement also reaffirmed me as a singer. It taught me that singing was not entertainment, it was something else.

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.

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

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 got my doctorate in 1975.

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

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.