Madam C. J. Walker Quotes Page 2

“Love’s language is imprecise, fits more like mittens than gloves.”

“My advice to every one expecting to go into business is to hit often and hit hard; in other words, strike with all your might.”

“My object in life is not simply to make money for myself or to spend it on myself in dressing or running around in an automobile, but I love to use a part of what I make in trying to help others.”

“Never get impressed by someone’s appearance, rather dig deep down into their thoughts to reveal the real person inside out.”

“Now I realize that in the so-called higher walks of life, many were prone to look down upon ‘hairdressers’ as they called us.

They didn’t have a very high opinion of our calling, so I had to go down and dignify this work, so much so that many of the best women of our race are now engaged in this line of business, and many of them are now in my employ.”

“One can slide between poor and rich.”

“Open your own shop. Secure prosperity and freedom.”

“People are ugly not in their face but in their thoughts. So never get impressed by someone’s appearance, rather dig deep down into their thoughts to reveal the real person inside out.”

“Perseverance is my motto.”

“Surely you are not going to shut the door in my face. I feel that I am in a business that is a credit to the womanhood of our race.”

“The girls and women of our race must not be afraid to take hold of business endeavor and, by patient industry, close economy, determined effort and close application to business, wring success out of a number of business opportunities that lie at their very doors.”

“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.”

“There would be no hair growing business today had I not started it.”

“This is the greatest country under the sun. But we must not let our love of country, our patriotic loyalty, cause us to abate one whit in our protest against wrong and injustice.”

“When we began to make $10 a day, my ex-husband thought that was enough, thought I ought to be satisfied. But I was convinced that my hair preparation would fill a long-felt want.

And when we found it impossible to agree, due to his narrowness of vision, I embarked on business for myself.”

“Worth more than it costs.”

“You might say that I was the first and caused others to awaken to the sense of their duty in helping deserving causes for the benefit of the race.”