Bernice Johnson Reagon
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"Bernice Johnson Reagon" is a singer, composer, scholar, and social activism/social activist, who founded the a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock in 1973.

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

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 good work.

The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail . . . and I'd never heard it before in my life.

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

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.