Top 21 Madam C J Walker Quotes
#1. I am not ashamed of my past. I am not ashamed of my humble beginning.
Madam C. J. Walker
#2. 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
#3. 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
#5. 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
#6. America doesn't respect anything but money. What our people need is a few millionaires.
Madam C. J. Walker
#7. All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly -right now.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#8. The awakened sages call a person wise when all his undertakings are free from anxiety about results; all his selfish desires have been consumed in the fire of knowledge.
Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
#9. 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
#10. If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard.
Madam C. J. Walker
#11. 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
#12. There would be no hair growing business today had I not started it.
Madam C. J. Walker
#13. 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
#14. I love you," she says.
"I love you," I say.
And then we hang up, because nothing else needs to be said after that.
I want to give Zara her life back. Even if I feel I deserve something like this, I don't deserve it at her expense.
David Levithan
#15. Chess is a thinking person's game. But you don't have to be smart to know what's funny! Lots of check, mate!
Steve Breen
#16. 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
#18. 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
#20. There are heroes and schmucks in all worlds. The most important thing is whether you are willing to engage in moral struggle against yourself.
David Brooks
#21. 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
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