I just don't think one person has that much to contribute to any subject.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I learned that if you bring black people together, you bring them together with a song. To this day, I don't understand how people think they can bring anybody together without a song.