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For many years Madam Walker was just a little footnote in history. As a woman who made haircare products, she was really consigned to something trivial.
“For many years Madam Walker was just a little footnote in history. As a woman who made haircare products, she was really consigned to something trivial.”
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“For many years Madam Walker was just a little footnote in history. As a woman who made haircare products, she was really consigned to something trivial.”
“From the beginning, Madam C. J. Walker's message was as much about hair and beauty as it was about empowering other women. She knew that confidence and self-assurance are key ingredients to success, and that true beauty comes from within.”
“I love people who have really long locs. I love how they can go in different directions or pile it up into a big crown on the head.”
“Both my parents worked at the Madam C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company, with my dad eventually being hired by another company called Summit Laboratories that made chemical hair straighteners.”
“For all my life, I've been trying to tell Madam's story and really it's a labor of love just to make sure people know about her and the empowerment she gave to other women.”
“Madam Walker was a master marketer. But her brilliance was in taking it to another level by training women, by traveling, by making very motivational speeches and by providing independent income for women who otherwise would have to be maids and sharecroppers.”
“The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.”
“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.”
“The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We're obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.”
“I think part of the thing that is important to me, and is important to Labour supporters, is that the fight goes on. The fight goes on in relation to this budget, in relation to Europe, and in a way, the history of progressive politics is that there are setbacks - significant setbacks - and you have to overcome that. But obviously it's tough.”
“The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.”