I wrote my first report about Madam Walker when I was a senior in high school in 1970. — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
People will buy products for quality, and they will buy products for bargains. — A'Lelia Bundles Bargains Copy Share Image
I think a lot of times, the historical piece is often a way to comment on the present. — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
We live in a culture where European beauty standards are dominant. — A'Lelia Bundles Beauty Copy Share Image
Madam Walker's legacy lives in her philanthropy as well as in an amazing line of hair care products. — A'Lelia Bundles Amazing Copy Share Image
There are schools that have rules against afro puffs. They say it's distracting. But nobody is saying that about a little girl… — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
A lot of people think Oprah is channeling for Madam Walker, and there are lots of parallels. — A'Lelia Bundles 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
Wearing your hair natural is a positive statement about who you are. It's not a protest to somebody else. It's affirming you. — A'Lelia Bundles Hair Copy Share Image
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… — A'Lelia Bundles Empowerment 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
Madam Walker was an incredible woman, but she wasn't the only one of her time who was. She just took it to… — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
She used her wealth and philanthropy to contribute to Black schools and colleges, she gave the largest gift the NAACP had ever… — A'Lelia Bundles Education 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 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
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
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 Copy Share Image
Madam C.J. Walker was born in 1867, two years after the civil war ended. She was a daughter of a slave. She… — A'Lelia Bundles Age Copy Share Image
To her credit, Madam Walker discerned that black women wanted to conform to white Victorian models of beauty. She was aware of… — A'Lelia Bundles Beauty Copy Share Image
What grows from our head is something that we should love. The larger society can love it or not, but it's not… — A'Lelia Bundles Decision Copy Share Image
My mother was the fourth generation of women to have worked with the Walker company. As a little girl, I would go… — A'Lelia Bundles Generation Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by Madam Walker's ability to use her money for political causes. I find her story so inspires people… — 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… — 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 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
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
Through the years, Madam Walker has certainly become a staple of anything that has to do with black history, women's history and… — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
And mothers and daughters - mothers need to help their daughters love their hair. And some mothers know how to do this,… — A'Lelia Bundles Children 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
There was a period of 10 years where the conventional wisdom was Black shows don't sell overseas, therefore nobody is interested. — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
We buy too much stuff we just don't need. We're trying to look cute for next weekend when we ought to be… — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
Women of African descent, since the beginning of time, have altered their hair, decorated it and used it to designate status. — A'Lelia Bundles Beginning Copy Share Image
If you wear your hair straight or natural, it's all fine with me. It doesn't mean that you aren't politically conscious or… — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
Madam Walker was a woman who transformed herself in a very American, rags-to-riches way. — A'Lelia Bundles 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 Copy Share Image
