Bernice Johnson Reagon Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“So one of the things that happened with integration in the South is they found that the black teachers were much more educated than the white teachers.”

“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.”

“If I had been at a University I don't think I would have been able to have the experience I had in my Smithsonian work. I don't think I have been as successful.”

“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 convince other people to really do it. And this year, I'm not running it.”

“One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of the country and since.”

“Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn't have religion.”