“Essence has been home for so many of us for so many years. I always sa...” — Nina Shaw Quote

Essence has been home for so many of us for so many years. I always say that Essence was the first place that I felt I was a pretty black girl.

So many people don't have control over their destiny in a way that I do, don't own their own businesses, don't have their own clients. I owe it to them to speak freely.

I'm incredibly tenacious, but I also try so hard in my work to really listen to people and address their point of view. In the end, I always remember who I'm an advocate for.

Often, when we support the 'right' causes and candidates, we fail to recognize that with progress comes sacrifice. That sacrifice might mean that you are no longer the obvious choice for the job. Your job security may no longer be a given.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.

The natural law is, in essence, a profoundly 'radical' ethic, for it holds the existing status quo, which might grossly violate natural law, up to the unsparing and unyielding light of reason.

If you look at the true essence of the Black Panthers, they were more of a community protection group.

The way we're going about things and what we want to do, we feel it has to be a really pure essence of music. That's where you get the most out of it.