Quotessence
Home / Authors / Jewel Books
Jewel

Jewel Books

Singer-songwriter

Related Quotes

“Being idolized and being torn down felt oddly similar. They both made me feel alone. Friendship and trust should be earned, and when you're famous, people seem to want to give them to you whether you've earned them or not, and it felt dishonest to me. Fame was not real. It was all a projection—fame made me a blank canvas that people projected their love, lust, troubles, self-worth, and desire upon. Fame and power do not change us, they amplify us.”

DesirePowerFameProjectionCelebrityFamousImageProjectIdolizedIdolProjecting
Book:Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story
Create image

“One man came up to me at a taco stand and said, "I have no idea who you are, but I can see everyone is staring at you, so you must be somebody. I just wanted to tell you that you are not that special. You're no more special than me." I looked at him with a mouth full of food and managed to say, "Thanks. I agree," and promptly asked the waitress for a to go box.”

SpecialFameCelebrity
Book:Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story
Create image

“Clean water is a necessity that we can no longer take for granted. Each year more people die of water related diseases than any other cause of death on this planet. With a higher rate of suffering and mortality than diabetes, cancer, high cholesterol, or war; or any two combined for that matter! An entire economy is growing around water. Those without money are suffering the most and risk severe illness from contaminated sources”

PeopleYearsTwoWarMatterSufferingDiesCausesWaterEconomyGrowingRiskPlanetsSourceHigherDiseaseCleanRateCancerIllnessGrantedRelatedMortalitySevereDiabetesClean WaterCholesterolHigh Cholesterol
Author:Jewel
Create image

“We must never lose sight of the fact that we must take part in the development, not only of ourselves but of all humanity... I want you to understand that there never was or has been or will be, in the minds of the founders, including myself, the thought of any reward any notice coming to us for this experiment in brotherly cooperation and comradeship, which we initiated and which has developed, not necessarily because of any efforts of ours, into one of the best regarded organizations in the Negro collegiate world.”

WorldWantMindHas BeensFactsHumanityLosesEffortDevelopmentOrganizationSightRewardsIncludingExperimentsCooperationFoundersI Want YouBrotherlyComradeship
Author:Jewel
Create image

“Alpha Phi Alpha, the oldest of Negro Fraternities, with all of its members presumably far above the average American and having a good practical understanding of the salient factors involved in the Negro's problem, and which a membership upwards of eight thousand men, should be able to take into their hands the leadership in the Negro's struggle for status.”

MenShouldProblemHandsAbleUnderstandingStruggleInvolvedThousandMembersAverageEightPracticalsFactorsMembershipFraternityAlphas
Author:Jewel
Create image

“Never before was it as incumbent upon every members to restate loyalty and exemplify fraternal obligation by consistent life and unimpeachable character. But these must be reinforced by a growing consciousness of the responsibilities that Alpha Phi Alpha faces in the world today, where, if ever the problems which beset us are to be solved and a way of deliverance discovered, it must be by the application of those principles upon which we are founded.”

IfsWorldWayCharacterProblemTodayFacesConsciousnessResponsibilityPrinciplesGrowingMembersLoyaltyObligationConsistentApplicationWorld TodayDeliveranceIncumbentsAlphasFraternal
Author:Jewel
Create image

“We all should choose our friends carefully. I used to think that no one could know me better than somebody else, because you're inside yourself, your body, you can't see yourself. If you think like that, you surround yourself with other people who are willing to tell you who you are, which are usually judgmental people ... we should really surround ourselves with the ones that adore us and believe in the highest of us.”

PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsShouldBelieveBodyUsedWillingLike YouHighestWho You AreYour BodySurroundKnow MeAdoreInsomniaJudgmentalSurround YourselfI Like YouJudgmental People
Author:Jewel
Create image

“Dreams last so long Even after you're gone I know you love me And soon you will see You were meant for me And I was meant for you Go about my business, I'm doing fine Besides, what would I say if I had you on the line Same old story, not much to say Hearts are broken every day I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead I try to tell myself it'll be all right I just shouldn't think anymore tonight”

IfsThinkingKnowsFeelsTryingHeartLongStoriesDreamLastsSongLinesHalfGoneAliveBrokenFineTonightI Know You Love Me
Author:Jewel
Create image