Madam Walker Quotes & Sayings

How many times has your loved one come into the room, but you were too busy to fully acknowledge them? Hanh says, perhaps your intention is not to ignore this person, but the way you act, look, and speak does not manifest the desire to recognize the presence of the other. Appreciate the person you love several times a day. Someday they won't be there. Live every day as if you would never see the person you loved again. — David Mezzapelle

I am not ashamed of my past. I am not ashamed of my humble beginning. — Madam C. J. Walker

But if I hadn't shoved you off the boat back there,you'd be lost at sea now,wouldn't you? We'd all be lost! So thanks to me you're all standing on land.
(Pirates, its a good thing they're idiots) — Dave Barry

If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard. — Madam C. J. Walker

I am not merely satisfied in making money for myself, for I am endeavoring to provide employment for hundreds of women of my race ... I want to say to every Negro woman present, don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them! — Madam C. J. Walker

Perseverance is my motto. — Madam C. J. Walker

Britain has invented a new missile. It's called the civil servant - it doesn't work and it can't be fired. — Madam C. J. Walker

I want the great masses of my people to take a greater pride in their personal appearance and to give their hair proper attention. — Madam C. J. Walker

The British lady, trying to make conversation, asked Zoe and me what our parents did if we were "bad girls." "When I'm bad, I get a time-out," Zoe said. "When I'm bad," I announced, "my father sticks a fork in my vagina." This is hard to share without alarm bells sounding. We're taught to listen to little girls, particularly when they say things about being sodomized with cutlery. Also my father makes sexually explicit artwork so he's probably already on the FBI's fork-in-vagina radar. — Lena Dunham

I refuse to be labeled immoral merely because I am godless. — Madam C. J. Walker

IT'S PRETTY HARD for the Lord TO GUIDE YOU IF YOU HAVEN'T MADE UP YOUR MIND WHICH WAY TO GO. — Madam C. J. Walker

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 C. J. Walker

You love your music."
"I did when I was trying to shut everything out. Now I'm trying to let everything in. — Jennifer Echols

I want you to understand that your first duty is to humanity. I want others to look at us and see that we care not just about ourselves but about others. — Madam C. J. Walker

There would be no hair growing business today had I not started it. — Madam C. J. Walker

I do not think you should read about writing while you are writing. — Maxwell Perkins

I got my start by giving myself a start. — Madam C. J. Walker

I am not satisfied in making money for myself. I endeavor to provide employment for hundreds of the women of my race. — Madam C. J. Walker

The use of music for intellectual enjoyment in leisure; — Aristotle.

Our mind is a crazy nightclub of cacophonous sound filled with strange images and one-night stands: our mind tells us lonely, loveless tales that leave us frightened but really have no lasting power — Lauren Roedy Vaughn

Magic = Chess, Chess is with strategy, doing moves which people think that
they are random, but they aren't random. They are part of the strategy. The same is
in the magic. However, the magic, have the ability to distraction! — Deyth Banger

I wanted to show America a different kind of man. If there was someone like me when I was growing up, my whole life would have been different. — Chaz Bono

Your anger, pride, deceit, and greed should be such that they hurt no one. If they are limited to where they only hurt only you and no one else, then the path of liberation is open. — Dada Bhagwan

Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn't telling anyone? — Jim Valvano

The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal. — Victor Hugo

You might say that I was the first and caused others to awaken to the sense of their duty in helping deserving causes for the benefit of the race. — Madam C. J. Walker

One night I had a dream, and in that dream a big black man appeared to me and told me what to mix up for my hair. I made up my mind I would begin to sell it. — Madam C. J. Walker

America doesn't respect anything but money. What our people need is a few millionaires. — Madam C. J. Walker