It takes a long time, I think, to get to the place where you realize you may love the hairstyle that somebody… — A'Lelia Bundles Hair Copy Share Image
There are two national historic landmarks: the Madam Walker Legacy Center in Indianapolis and the Madam C.J. Walker House in Irvington, New… — A'Lelia Bundles History Copy Share Image
I have lived almost seven decades. So I've had my hair journey where I wasn't comfortable with my hair. — A'Lelia Bundles Comfortable 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… — A'Lelia Bundles History Copy Share Image
The saying was that Madam Walker made the money, and her daughter - my great-grandmother - spent it. — A'Lelia Bundles Children Copy Share Image
Madame Walker was mythologized like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, but I want to show that she was fabulous on her own. — A'Lelia Bundles Fabulous Copy Share Image
Don't sit around and wait for the opportunities to come. You have to get up and make those opportunities come. — A'Lelia Bundles Around 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'Lelia Bundles Crown 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… — A'Lelia Bundles Book Copy Share Image
I hope that people will be inspired by Madam Walker's story. I hope that they will see her as a complex human… — A'Lelia Bundles Details Copy Share Image
You know the AME Church has a history of empowering black people and having an international outlook. So it was the women… — A'Lelia Bundles Black people Copy Share Image
Today, there's no excuse for not learning how to get our financial houses in order. Some of us close our eyes, take… — A'Lelia Bundles Deep Copy Share Image
By 1916, as Madam Walker herself was developing more assertive views on race, she was becoming eager to assume her place alongside… — A'Lelia Bundles Developing 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… — A'Lelia Bundles Day 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… — A'Lelia Bundles Money Copy Share Image
Madame Walker was one of the four iconic women who really created what's now the modern hair-care and cosmetics industry, and we… — A'Lelia Bundles Black community 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… — A'Lelia Bundles 1960s Copy Share Image
There are literally hundreds of stories about women of color that haven't been told that are amazing, fantastic, better than anything else. — A'Lelia Bundles Amazing 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 Black women Copy Share Image
As much as any woman of the twentieth century, Madam Walker paved the way for the profound social changes that altered women's… — A'Lelia Bundles American 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… — A'Lelia Bundles Body Copy Share Image
DuBois - my intellectual hero - had written an obit of Madam, praising her... I began to see Madam Walker beyond the… — A'Lelia Bundles Beyond Copy Share Image
For many years Madam Walker was just a little footnote in history. As a woman who made haircare products, she was really… — A'Lelia Bundles History 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… — A'Lelia Bundles Compete Copy Share Image
She was born Sarah Breedlove on a plantation in Delta, Louisiana, where her parents had been slaves. At 14, she married to… — A'Lelia Bundles Born Copy Share Image
Many people have told me that once they learn of Madam Walker's accomplishments they are surprised, even embarrassed, that they have never… — A'Lelia Bundles History 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… — A'Lelia Bundles Billionaires Copy Share Image
One of the key things for me about Madame Walker's life is that she really does represent this first generation out of… — A'Lelia Bundles Black people Copy Share Image
We all draw inspiration from women whose names make the headlines and whose stories are in the history books, but often our… — A'Lelia Bundles Books Copy Share Image
Every ethnic group has a mythology... Until 'Roots'... there was nothing in the popular culture to refute the paragraph in elementary school… — A'Lelia Bundles Culture 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… — A'Lelia Bundles Aunt 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… — A'Lelia Bundles Business Copy Share Image
Madam Walker was a master marketer. But her brilliance was in taking it to another level by training women, by traveling, by… — A'Lelia Bundles Motivational Copy Share Image
People will buy products for quality, and they will buy products for bargains. — A'Lelia Bundles Bargains Copy Share Image
I wrote my first report about Madam Walker when I was a senior in high school in 1970. — A'Lelia Bundles About Copy Share Image
We live in a culture where European beauty standards are dominant. — A'Lelia Bundles Beauty Copy Share Image
