I Think The Civil Rights Movement Changed

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.

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

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

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

The Smithsonian Festival Of American Folklife, Actually, Was An Effort To Put Something On The Mall In Washington So American Tourists Could Walk Through America, And In Their Minds Everything On The Mall Would Be American