Quotes by A'lelia Bundles - Page 2

I hope that people will be inspired by Madam Walker's story. I hope that they will see her as a complex human being, and that they will want to dig more deeply, that they will want to know the details of her life.
A'lelia Bundles /
Details
Life Hope People
Dig
Madam
Walker
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Every ethnic group has a mythology... Until 'Roots'... there was nothing in the popular culture to refute the paragraph in elementary school history class that said, 'Slaves picked the cotton, were happy and life wasn't so bad.'
A'lelia Bundles /
Cotton
Elementary School
Mythology
Paragraph
Popular Culture
Roots
Elementary
Ethnic
Picked
Refute
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She used her wealth and philanthropy to contribute to Black schools and colleges, she gave the largest gift the NAACP had ever received to it's anti-lynching fund... Madam Walker's life was one of transformation and re-invention.
A'lelia Bundles /
Fund
Naacp
Philanthropy
Transformation
Wealth
Colleges
Contribute
Largest
Madam
Received
Schools
Walker
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For some people, success is a zero sum game. They think that if they push other people out of the way, fewer people can compete with them. That's one way of seeing the world. It's dog eat dog. It's, sadly, always going to be there.
A'lelia Bundles /
Fewer
Sadly
Success Is
Sum
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Why is she Mrs. C.J. Walker? It really was a matter of her trying to insist that people respect her, because during that time, white people would call any black woman 'Sally.' 'Aunt Sally.' So this was like... you can't call me that.
A'lelia Bundles /
Aunt
Time Respect Me
Insist
Mrs
Sally
Walker
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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.
A'lelia Bundles /
Beauty
Confidence
Empowering
Ingredients
True Beauty
Within
Beginning
Madam
She
Walker
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For more than three years, I'd been part of a complex and frustrating dance as my nonfiction, fact-based material was translated from book to movie by scriptwriters whose visions, goals and sensibilities often were quite different from mine.
A'lelia Bundles /
Frustrating
Nonfiction
Sensibilities
Translated
Visions
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Many people have told me that once they learn of Madam Walker's accomplishments they are surprised, even embarrassed, that they have never heard of her. But they shouldn't be. Her extraordinary story was simply omitted from the history books.
A'lelia Bundles /
Embarrassed
History Books
Accomplishments
History Me People
Story Books
Madam
Walker
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If a CEO takes an interest in you and he happens to be an Asian man, then that's great, but as an African-American woman, you want to make sure that if the executive vice-president of the company is an African-American woman that you get to know her.
A'lelia Bundles /
African American
Ceo
Great Man Woman
Executive
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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.
A'lelia Bundles /
Women
Brilliance
Income
Independent
Maids
Providing
Training
Very
Master
Her
Level
Madam
Making
Otherwise
Speeches
Taking
Walker
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I think Michelle Obama ought to wear her hair exactly the way she wants to wear her hair. I am not looking for Michelle Obama to cut her hair off like I have mine, very short. I'm not looking for her to do twists. I'm looking for her to wear what's comfortable for her.
A'lelia Bundles /
Twists
Exactly The Way
Michelle
Michelle Obama
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She was born Sarah Breedlove on a plantation in Delta, Louisiana, where her parents had been slaves. At 14, she married to get a home of her own, to get away from a cruel brother-in-law with whom she was living. At 17, she had her only child, A'Lelia, who I'm named after.
A'lelia Bundles /
Brother In Law
Delta
Louisiana
Only Child
Named
Cruel
Plantation
Sarah
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Madam C.J. Walker was born in 1867, two years after the civil war ended. She was a daughter of a slave. She had no formal education. Both her parents died by the time she was seven. Yet, by the time she died in 1919 at age 51, she was one of the most successful businesswomen America had ever seen.
A'lelia Bundles /
Daughter
Education
Age
War
America
Born
Civil War
Died
Formal
Formal Education
Seven
Slave
Successful
Two
Years
Most
Time War Age
Had
After
Seen
By The Time
Civil
Ever
Ended
Her
Parents
Madam
She
Walker
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One of the key things for me about Madame Walker's life is that she really does represent this first generation out of slavery when black people were reinventing themselves, and as a woman who was the first child in her family born free, she was trying to figure out a way, and she moved from Delta, Louisiana.
A'lelia Bundles /
Delta
Louisiana
Moved
Reinventing
Life Family Me
Represent
Figure
First Child
Generation
Life Family Black
Madame
Walker
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You know the AME Church has a history of empowering black people and having an international outlook. So it was the women of the church who began to give Sarah Breedlove an image of herself as something other than an illiterate washerwoman, and she wanted to make her life better, and her daughter's life better.
A'lelia Bundles /
Empowering
Illiterate
Outlook
Life History Women
Herself
Sarah
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To her credit, Madam Walker discerned that black women wanted to conform to white Victorian models of beauty. She was aware of the double- sidedness of her products - helping black women appear more European in look, with straight hair - but she always maintained that she was simply selling products that promoted hair growth.
A'lelia Bundles /
Conform
Models
Selling
Victorian
Appear
Double
Madam
Maintained
Promoted
Walker
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We didn't sit around the dining table talking about Madam Walker, but the silverware that we used every day had her monogram on it and our china for special occasions had been Madam Walker's china... and the baby grand piano on which I learned to read music had been in A'Lelia Walker's apartment in Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance.
A'lelia Bundles /
Apartment
China
Dining
Harlem
Renaissance
Music Day Every Day
Grand
Madam
Table
Walker
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