Top 39 C.j. Walker Quotes
#1. C'est moi, c'est moi,'tis I,' I told him. It seemed appropriately melodramatic, though I didn't know if he'd catch the reference. I shouldn't have worried.
Unexpectedly, he laughed. Trust you to quote Lancelot rather than Guinevere.
Patricia Briggs
#2. 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
#3. Thank God genuine video phones hadn't been invented. I hadn't even grabbed a towel. Ford Prefect would despair of me.
C.E. Murphy
#6. When I awoke I was laying on the floor in a darkened room. The rope, like the very core of myself, had turned from snow white to a hot, unfamiliar red.
C.K. Walker
#7. What do you suppose we would do," I said conversationally, "if we ever had sex? I mean, what would we call each other? Captain and Walker? Morrison and Detective? Or would we just find excuses to not call each other anything?
C.E. Murphy
#8. It's almost like you have to hear it out loud, even from yourself, to realize its not what you think. It's just what you think you think. Maybe because other people would think that way.
Melissa C. Walker
#9. Are you learning to succeed from your results or are you letting your results beat you up?
Sidney C. Walker
#10. It's a long story, but one you've never heard before. This story is about a place that dwells on the mountain; a place where bad things happen. And you may think you know about the bad things, you may decide you have it all figured out but you don't. Because the truth is worse than monsters or men.
C.K. Walker
#11. Just because the situation turned out kind of messed up doesn't mean that my memories aren't valid," he says. "They're still true,still real.
Melissa C. Walker
#12. America doesn't respect anything but money. What our people need is a few millionaires.
Madam C. J. Walker
#13. Underneath the Triple Tree there is a man who waits for me and should I go or should I stay my fate's the same either way.
C.K. Walker
#14. I'm an art major. You're a political science major. YOU go lay down the law.
C.K. Walker
#16. Mom says you have to believe in Santa if you want presents on Christmas.
C.K. Walker
#17. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. There would be no hair growing business today had I not started it.
Madam C. J. Walker
#23. 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
#25. 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
#27. I believe that you believe that. But this thing, whatever it is, it's tricky. Manipulative. A liar. And it's smarter than you."
"I'll try not to be offended by that."
"You shouldn't be."
"What do you think it is?"
"Something very old and very evil.
C.K. Walker
#28. Can anyone ever see the world in any other way but through their own personal lens?
Melissa C. Walker
#30. Lydia shrugged. "At least we'll have some stories to tell after graduation."
"These aren't the kind of stories I want to tell.
C.K. Walker
#31. He isn't mine to miss,' I say a minute later, after I control the quiver I know would have crept into my voice if I'd responded right away.
'No one belongs to anyone, Clem. Especially not when you're sixteen years old.
Melissa C. Walker
#32. I just want you to see out there, where it's blue and wild and full of adventure. And then I want you to see in here, where there's a warm yellow glow and your family is making dinner and your mom and dad are dancing and your little sister is hoping that you'll throw a smile her way.
Melissa C. Walker
#33. I love that word: us. It's the best, most simple, most incredible two letters ever put together.
Melissa C. Walker
#34. 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
#35. You can't beat yourself up anymore,' he says. 'And you can't compare your thing to my thing or to anyone else's thing on the how-bad-should-I-feel? scale.
Melissa C. Walker
#36. I am not ashamed of my past. I am not ashamed of my humble beginning.
Madam C. J. Walker
#37. What nuns don't realize is that they look better in nun clothes than in J. C. Penney pantsuits.
Walker Percy
#38. 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
#39. If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard.
Madam C. J. Walker
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