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" The bitter might be just an initial reaction of, 'Oh my goodness, it's sold,' but not really understanding fully that I will be chairman emeritus of the new company, which is Ebony Media Operations. It is African-American led and owned, and I have a seat on the board, and I also have an equity position in the company, so I'm still there. "

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" I'm not so sure we've influenced the general market. But I'm not sure we're trying to do that. "

" You have to stay current to compete. "

" In light of the overall economic challenges that are affecting many, including our potential corporate sponsors, we have arrived at a most difficult decision to cancel Ebony Fashion Fair's fall 2009 season. "

" My playground was our company. That's really where I grew up. "

" We kept everything: every major event that's happened to African-Americans since 1945, with 'Ebony' as a repository for all those photographs and as a voice for all that happened. "

" We have to reach out to younger audiences. They need to see how they can see themselves as black women. "

" The stories of accomplishments, achievements, challenges, problems, issues, concerns pass down through history, and those are things you take with you in your personal life wherever you go. "

" Johnson Publishing Co. has always had a first-class image. And until the day I die, I want to keep that image. "

" I would describe my mother as a steel magnolia. She was very intelligent, very persuasive. "

" We're the curator for the African-American experience for the past, present and future. That's my job. "

" They couldn't have a little kid occupying an important spot on the front row, so I sat in the back where all the models changed clothes. I remember vividly the rustling and the rush of the fabrics of the clothes and the swoosh of textures and color as they went by. I was in the back, but I had a front-row seat, in my opinion. "

" More black women are in the professional-managerial field, and they don't want to look like the guys sitting next to them in pinstriped suits. "

" The key is to service a market that has not been serviced to its full potential. "

" The horse is my favorite animal. "

" I think you will find that a lot of young African-Americans are really searching for, 'Who am I?' and 'Where did I come from?' and 'What is my past?' "

" Yves Saint Laurent has a special place in my heart because he was my mother's favorite designer. "

" There's nothing you can't wear. There's nothing you can't do. "

" We like to keep it short. If a story warrants more in-depth coverage, we will do it. "

" We're in the media business. We're in the beauty business. "

" In regards to black people, we have a treasure trove of information that nobody else really has. "

" We are going to do extensive market research because it is hard for black women to go into stores and get clothes that fit the way they should. "

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" I am delighted to resume the leadership of both companies. "

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" JP Morgan Chase's investment in our firm is a logical outgrowth of our longstanding relationship. "

" We understand our audience. We write to the things that concern our audience. At one point, it was civil rights. You know, during the '50s and '60s, we were at the forefront. "

" We've been here so long. The history and richness runs so deep within the community. We own this. It's personal. It's very personal. "

" I think somebody's got to be cutting-edge. It just depends how you want to market your magazines and how big you want them to be. We look upon competition as what it is. It's there, you pay attention to it, but you don't live by it. You have to go on and grind it out day to day and do the best you can with your magazine every single day. "

" I think I'm curious by nature because I always want to learn, and I think you can learn from so many things around you on an everyday basis. "

" Almost 63 years ago, my father, John Johnson, named the publication 'Jet' because, as he said in the first issue, 'In the world today, everything is moving faster. There is more news and far less time to read it.' He could not have spoken truer words. We are not saying goodbye to 'Jet'; we are embracing the future as my father did in 1951. "

" The magazines were born out of a need that my parents saw: that there were no magazines that really spoke to black people. 'Ebony' wrote about architects and artists, the share cropper who sent his nine kids to college, real African Americans at a time when everyone else only covered them as entertainers and athletes. "