Life's Challenges Are Not Supposed To Paralyze

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

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

Personally I Discovered That You Could Go Through The Academy As A Young Scholar, Come Out, And Almost Immediately Have An Impact On The Academic Environment.

When I Started Graduate School I Was Interested In The Culture Of The Civil Rights Movement.

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 Convince Other People To Really Do It. And This Year, I'm Not Running It.