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Love's language is imprecise,
fits more like mittens than gloves.
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Jeannine Atkins (Borrowed Names: Poems About Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madam C.J. Walker, Marie Curie, and Their Daughters)
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I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.
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C.J. Walker
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Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.
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C.J. Walker
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When women saw her photo and heard her life story, they clamored to take her course and sit for her treatments. The twin promises of enhanced beauty and financial gain—not to mention Madam Walker’s own phenomenal personal example—served as a magnet to women who had always believed they would never be more than maids and laundresses.
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A'Lelia Perry Bundles (On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker)
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One can slide between poor and rich, the difference as slight as between paper and parchment, one voice and a choir, arms hanging by sides and a hug.
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Jeannine Atkins (Borrowed Names: Poems About Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madam C.J. Walker, Marie Curie, and Their Daughters)
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Mama, what kept you moving forward
through droughts, wild animals, loneliness?
We had no choice. Sadness was as dangerous as panthers and bears.
The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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Jeannine Atkins (Borrowed Names: Poems About Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madam C.J. Walker, Marie Curie, and Their Daughters)
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You’re one of those folks who can’t open her heart once it’s been shut.
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Tananarive Due (The Black Rose: The Dramatic Story of Madam C.J. Walker, America's First Black Female Millionaire)
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I am not ashamed of my past; I am not
ashamed of my humble beginnings.”
- Madam C. J. Walker
(Quoted in POEMS PAVE OUR LIVES)
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Miranda P. Yeoh (Poems Pave Our Lives)
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There is no royal flower-strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it, for whatever success I have attained has been the result of much hard work and many sleepless nights.
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Madam C.J. Walker