#han

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 training experience. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#background #came #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement

One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of the country and since. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#african #african american #allowed #american #before

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. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#educated #found #happened #integration #more

I think of these things as obstacles rather than opportunities, because if they were opportunities it means I actually took the business of doing them seriously. To take myself too seriously is the gentle kiss of death. ↗

— Leon Redbone

#because #business #death #doing #gentle

I wanted control over the merchandising, the actual packaging of the product. That was a big factor. The only way for me to exercise control on all those levels was to start my own label. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#big #control #exercise #factor #i

I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#bathroom #been #children #come #conversation

We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn. ↗

— Orville Redenbacher

#corn #dent #did #ever #feeding

In fact you've got your hands tied behind your back when somebody chooses to take a low road in to you, there is nothing you can do about it, and so you just live with it and move on. ↗

— Robert Redford

#back #behind #chooses #fact #got

Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature. ↗

— Robert Redford

#baseball #because #example #fishing #golf

I believe I have lots of time. I have to believe that, that it won't come back, and that that's why I'm in good hands. But I also do live my life by putting nothing off. ↗

— Lynn Redgrave

#back #believe #come #good #hands