Madam C.j. Walker Quotes

Love's language is imprecise, fits more like mittens than gloves.

Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.

You’re one of those folks who can’t open her heart once it’s been shut.

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