Bernice Johnson Reagon Quotes

I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance. - Bernice Johnson Reagon

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. - Bernice Johnson Reagon

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

I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience. - Bernice Johnson Reagon

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. - 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 Civil Rights Movement. - Bernice Johnson Reagon

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

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