I Was At The Smithsonian For Twenty

The First Job I Had With The Smithsonian Was As A Field Researcher Among African American Communities In Southwest Louisiana And Arkansas For The Festival.

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.

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

There Is Nowhere You Can Go And Only Be With People Who Are Like You. Give It Up.

I Went To A Church Where You Could Not Sing Out Loud In The Service Until You Had Been Saved