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 can cross disci…

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

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 co…

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up.

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Mov…

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

If you're in a coalition and you're comfortable, you know it's not a broad enough coalition.

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the…

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

Today whenever women gather together it is not necessarily nurturing. It is coalition building. And if you feel the strain, you may be doing some goo…

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

Mothering/nurturing is a vital force and process establishing relationships throughout the universe.

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

If we dwell in a community that is comfortable, then it's probably not broad enough a coalition.

- Bernice Johnson Reagon