Looking Quote by Ron Cephas Jones

“I have always been very clear that I sold Essence to Time Warner with the expectation that the magazine would continue to exercise its…

— Edward Lewis

It's hard to judge yourself. Each Essence cover represents a different special moment in my life. One is about keeping it sexy in my…

— Nia Long

Slate is not a political magazine but a lot of what it does is politics.

— David Plotz

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

— Dario Fo

Part of the pleasure of editing 'Vogue,' one that lies in a long tradition of this magazine, is being able to feature those who…

— Anna Wintour

“I always said I wanted Essence to be like Time Warner, the publishing empire that had movies, books, and television, as well as magazines…

— Edward Lewis

What made the magazine so popular was, even before I started writing the philosophy, there was a point of view in the magazine.

— Hugh Hefner

When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more…

— David Brooks

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

— Robert Redford

As a political activist you run the risk of having to settle for one compromise or another in order to achieve your goals. Artists…

— Josephine Meckseper

What is a magazine? A small body of Literature entirely surrounded by advertisements.

— Carolyn Wells

This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and he-man leader-types…

— Thomas Frank