We buy too much stuff we just don't need. We're trying to look cute for next weekend when we ought to be thinking about the next decade. — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
It's very hard to be a kid, especially in a predominantly white school or white town where other people want to police your body… — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
A'Lelia Walker did not subsidize specific writers, but she provided a place for all kinds of people to gather. She was one of the… — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
For some people, success is a zero sum game. They think that if they push other people out of the way, fewer people can… — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
Madam Walker's name gets thrown out as either the savior of black women's hair or she's the evil devil. — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
Madame Walker selected Indianapolis as the headquarters for her growing business more than a century ago in 1910 because of its central location and… — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
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,… — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
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… — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
I know of at least two black women who are billionaires: Sheila Johnson, who co-founded BET, and Oprah Winfrey. And I know of hundreds… — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
I've found that once people are introduced to Madam Walker's story, they are inspired but also perplexed about why she was omitted from their… — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
I was like other teenagers in the late 1960s; I too was very interested in having an Afro and getting rid of the perm… — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
I love people who have really long locs. I love how they can go in different directions or pile it up into a big… — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
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… — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
