Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment.

The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival.

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

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.

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.

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

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