"The mighty, mighty voice of Bernice Reagon."

"The concept of "home" has a complex and sometimes convoluted history within Third World feminism. In an oft-cited ess…"

"We learn through doing. Bernice Johnson Reagon has said we're stumbling because we have to take the next step."

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

"We called ourselves, in those days — and I’m talking now about 1962, 1963 — sort of like a singing newspaper. We saw …"

"The African American culture is just a rich singing culture. When you take a culture like that and move it into a kin…"

"Slavery was a very violent system. And slavery did not just happen in the South; it happened to the nation. So, as a …"

"I’m a historian and a radical, and I don’t see resurging something from the past to address contemporary issues. I th…"

"There is a need to understand that we are a culture created by a slave culture and that we still operate out of lesso…"

"You actually don’t have to lie about what kind of country it is, that there’s a maturity that’s implied in being able…"