I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended… — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
The Civil Rights Movement also reaffirmed me as a singer. It taught me that singing was not entertainment, it was something else. — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was… — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just… — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement. — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
Mothering/nurturing is a vital force and process establishing relationships throughout the universe. — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
In fact when Sweet Honey was ten years old it was too big for me to run, and I knew it, but I ran… — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
It makes sense that whatever the topic is, it's more compelling if you can provide the audience with a range of perspectives, and you… — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up. — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
If, in moving through your life, you find yourself lost, go back to the last place where you knew who you were, and what… — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
“Life's challenges aren't suppose to paralyze you, they're suppose to help you discover who you are.” — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
If every moment is sacred, and If you are amazed and in awe most of the time, when you find yourself breathing and not… — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
Welcome to prekindergarten! You will not die if you discover that there are more lines out there than just your own. In fact, you'll… — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance. — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
I just don't think one person has that much to contribute to any subject — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I went full-time at the Smithsonian in… — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs. — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
Most people come out of their Ph.D. experience trying to prove themselves, trying to get ahead, trying to get published. You're scared everybody else… — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the… — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the… — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
