19 ordspråk av Lonnie Bunch
Lonnie Bunch
 Ebony and Jet increased the visibility of blacks and said that there is a diversity of experience in the black community. Not everyone is poor, and there are celebrities. |
| Going past the '70s and '80s there was a great reliance on the celebrity, the movie star and the person who sold a million records. People would argue that Ebony didn't become the journal to discuss substantive and thorny issues. |
| He recognized this was an important niche, but I would also argue that he saw himself as contributing to the uplift of African Americans and contributing to a changing America. |
| I can still remember the first time I was ever in Jet or Ebony, and suddenly all my mother's sisters said, 'I guess you are doing OK.' It didn't matter that I was in the New York Times or other papers. |
| I have rarely experienced a city that is so enamored with its history. Chicagoans revel in their history. |
| I want to talk to the elders within the African American community. I want to get their sense, and their blessing, and an artifact or two, |
| In some ways, this museum in Washington gets to do something very important, ... It can be a lens to help us all better understand what it means to be an American--to use African-American culture as that lens to understand the history of this country as well. |
| In some ways, we've romanticized the civil rights movement. We often forget just how strong the walls of segregation were, just how close to the surface racial hatred was. This wasn't simply a walk in the park. |
| It is too soon to think about breaking ground. The next step is design considerations. But we are looking forward to that day. |
| It will tell the stories of African-American culture from slavery through civil rights. |
| It's important for this museum to have a good idea of the vision of others. |
| My first task for tomorrow is to stop smiling. |
| That support allows me to reach out and do the work we need to do. |
| The North was not heaven, but it was free of the most obvious violence stemming from racism. Blacks were allowed to vote … and this gave them opportunities to build black banks and business communities and this contributed to opportunities for education. |
| There must be appropriate tension between stories of real pain, loss and tragedy with those of resiliency, optimism and hope, ... It must give those of the culture a real sense of legitimacy and possibility, but also be a museum that is a lens into what it means to be an American, with a message that all of us are shaped indelibly by this African-American experience. |
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