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“Sensitive people are the most genuine and honest people you will ever meet. There is nothing they won’t tell you about themselves if they trust your kindness. However, the moment you betray them, reject them or devalue them, they become the worse type of person. Unfortunately, they end up hurting themselves in the long run. They don’t want to hurt other people. It is against their very nature. They want to make amends and undo the wrong they did. Their life is a wave of highs and lows. They live with guilt and constant pain over unresolved situations and misunderstandings. They are tortured souls that are not able to live with hatred or being hated. This type of person needs the most love anyone can give them because their soul has been constantly bruised by others. However, despite the tragedy of what they have to go through in life, they remain the most compassionate people worth knowing, and the ones that often become activists for the broken hearted, forgotten and the misunderstood. They are angels with broken wings that only fly when loved.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Monk's reasons for dancing during a performance: "I get tired sitting down at the piano! That way I can dig the rhythm better.”
― Thelonious Monk

“He was a teacher, a prophet, a visionary.”
― Steve Lacy on Thelonious Monk

“When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity... you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others”
― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

“They learned the hard way that you can't save nobody who ain't interested in being saved.”
― Terry McMillan, Who Asked You?

“She talked about wanting to be a part of something, wanting to be desired, to be 'special', craving to be loved. She talked about experiencing the kind of loneliness so immense it could swallow you up. She called it 'loneliness that crowds couldn't cure'.”
― Cupcake Brown, A Piece of Cake

“Common sense is not so common.”
― Voltaire, A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
― Abigail Van Buren

“When you learn, teach, when you get, give.”
― Maya Angelou

“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

“Lots of people imagine wrongly that 'My Favorite Things' is one of my compositions; I would have loved to have written it, but it's by Rodgers and Hammerstein.”
― John Coltrane

“Favorite Things' is my favorite piece of all those I have recorded.”
― John Coltrane

“A Love Supreme' is Coltrane's best-known and best-selling album.”
― Lewis Porter, John Coltrane: His Life and Music

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”
― James Baldwin

“To become a leader you must have a positive mental attitude, which you can achieve with positive self-talk and looking at what is right with people instead of what is wrong with them.”
― Elaine Meryl Brown, The Little Black Book of Success: Laws of Leadership for Black Women

“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“We were the brothers 'holding it down' on the business side of the magazine, but it would have to be the 'sisters,' black women, who let it fly on the editorial side.”
― Edward Lewis, The Man from Essence: Creating a Magazine for Black Women

“I learned an enormous lesson about the value of relationships in doing business. In business interactions it is not just who you know, but who you have taking that extra step to vouch for you that can make all the difference between success and failure.”
― Edward Lewis, The Man from Essence: Creating a Magazine for Black Women

“On the sale of Essence Communications Inc: "What I would first learn is something that Suzanne de Passe, the legendary Hollywood producer who headed Motown Productions, commented on thirty years ago when there was talk of Motown being sold: 'In a certain way black people seem to feel that black companies owe them something extra, the kind of something extra that cannot be given if you want to stay in business.”
― Edward Lewis, The Man from Essence: Creating a Magazine for Black Women

“The Essence Woman is a striver, who in 1970 was now educated, worked in new careers, had discretionary income, had the ability to influence, and wanted information geared specifically to her and her needs in media that reflected her." Clarence Smith, cofounder, and advertising sales director”
― Edward Lewis, The Man from Essence: Creating a Magazine for Black Women

“The first issue of Essence featured a cover showing a beautiful, sensually full-featured black woman crowned by a glistening Afro emerging from shadow into the light of a new day. The cover date was May 1970, the newsstand price was 60 cents, the subscription rate was $5.00 for a year, $9.00 for two years, and the magazine had 82 pages, 13 of them advertising.”
― Edward Lewis, The Man from Essence: Creating a Magazine for Black Women

“I always said I wanted Essence to be like Time Warner, the publishing empire that had movies, books, and television, as well as magazines in its vast holdings. I saw ECI as a miniconglomerate within the African American community. But I knew we had to expend our core magazine business into other magazine ventures if we were going to grow the franchise.”
― Edward Lewis, The Man from Essence: Creating a Magazine for Black Women

“I have always been very clear that I sold Essence to Time Warner with the expectation that the magazine would continue to exercise its power to galvanize black women--to inform, affirm, and empower them.”
― Edward Lewis, The Man from Essence: Creating a Magazine for Black Women

“I continue to live by many of the rules I learned running a business for nearly forty years, advice dispensed by my mother, Jewell Spencer Lewis Clarke: 1) Be a proud black man; 2) Take care of family; 3) Get a good education; and 4) Always try to do the right thing.”
― Edward Lewis, The Man from Essence: Creating a Magazine for Black Women

“Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will." Frederick Douglas, Address on West India Emancipation 1857”
― Connie Rice, Power Concedes Nothing: One Woman's Quest for Social Justice in America, from the Courtroom to the Kill Zones

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard