S.L. Walker Quotes

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

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.

The silhouette says a lot with very little information, but that's also what the stereotype does.

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.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

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.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

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.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

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

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

You [men] are our protectors, is not true; for if you were, who would there be to protect us from?

Let the generations know that women in uniform also guaranteed their freedom.

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.

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

If one day speed kills me, do not cry because I was smiling.

You must come to terms with the reality that nothing outside ourselves, be it people or things is actually responsible for our happiness.

There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist—it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist.

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

Silhouettes are reductions, and racial stereotypes are also reductions of actual human beings.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher.

Remember That No Matter How Cool You Think You May Be, You Are Not Cool Enough To Look Down On Any One...Ever.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.

There is no graceful way to carry hatred.

Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

Leadership is building a bridge that connects the vision with the purpose, in order to empower those who are around us.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

The presence of an active, energetic, successful man, or set of men, in a place, will permeate the place with positive vibrations that will stimulate all who abide there.

I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance to be a real being, is unhealthy. It's like...you're just eating misery. You're eating a bitter life.

If you're a Black artist, you could paint a wall of smiley faces, and someone will still ask you, 'Why are you so angry?'

When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.

Coming from a small town it was tough to dream big. When I grew up in a small town in Georgia, my biggest dream was one day to be able to go to Atlanta.

we are the ones we have been waiting for

Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

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