“I want to say to every Negro women… don’t sit down and wait for opprotunities to come,… get up and make them!” – Madam C.J. Walker (Madam C.J. Walker: The Official Website, 2008).
“I got my start by giving myself a start.” -Madam Walker (Madam C.J. Walker: The Official Website, 2008).
“I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations….I have built my own factory on my own ground.” – Madam Walker, National Negro Business League Convention, July 1912 (Madam C.J. Walker: The Official Website, 2008).
“When women saw her photo and heard her life story, they clamored to take her course and sit for her treatments.” – A’Leila Bundles, great great granddaughter of Madam C.J. Walker (Jerry Jazz Musician, 2004).
