i figured it out and removed my link (privacy)
The answer I think is that the theme i use over rides it so I did my code like this maybe this will help someone someday..
mainly it was outlining my style with color:#000000;font-weight:bold;
I was just making a testimonial page . for now til I find a good plugin and I copied our testimonials over from our wordpress site but did the code like so
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;color:#000000;line-height:100%;">Excellent customer service, the staff is very friendly and knowledgeable too. blau blau bla... .</p> <br> <p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;color:#000000;font-weight:bold;">Customer 1 name</p> <br> <br> <p style="margin-bottom:0cm;color:#000000;line-height:100%;">I highly recommend blau blau bla...</p> <br> <p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;color:#000000;font-weight:bold;">Customer 2 name</p> <br> <br>