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

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

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

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

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

If, in moving through your life, you find yourself lost, go back to the last place where you knew who you were, and what you were doing, and start fr…

- Bernice Johnson Reagon