Madam C. J. Walker Quotes

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.

If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard.

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

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.

I got my start by giving myself a start.

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

America doesn't respect anything but money. What our people need is a few millionaires.

I am not ashamed of my past. I am not ashamed of my humble beginning.

Perseverance is my motto.

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

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.

There would be no hair growing business today had I not started it.

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.

Love's language is imprecise, fits more like mittens than gloves.

One can slide between poor and rich, the difference as slight as between paper and parchment, one voice and a choir, arms hanging by sides and a hug.