"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."

Bernice Johnson Reagon, American Musician

Teachers,

14

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"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."

Exlpore more Teachers quotes

"Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends."

Maria Callas, American Musician

Teachers,

"The teachers are getting screwed, blued, and tattooed by the system."

Kinky Friedman, American Musician

Teachers,

"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."

Bernice Johnson Reagon, American Musician

Teachers,

"Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read."

Eric Allin Cornell, American Physicist

Teachers, Trouble

Explore more quotes by Bernice Johnson Reagon

"I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance."

Music, Balance, Sanity

"I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I still plan to figure out what that means for me at this point in my life."

Life, Years

"It makes sense that whatever the topic is, it's more compelling if you can provide the audience with a range of perspectives, and you can cross disciplines. And you don't have to control what people take out of it."

People, Control, Sense

"I went to a church where you could not sing out loud in the service until you had been saved."

Church, Service

"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."

Religion, Time, People, First

"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."

People, Fact, Old, Running

"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."

History, African, Country

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

People,

"I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I went full-time at the Smithsonian in 1974. And I got my doctorate in 1975."

School,

"And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs."

Religion, Proof, Songs