36 Quotes by Madam C. J. Walker

Don't think that because you have to go down in the wash-tub that you are any less a lady!

I had little or no opportunity when I started out in life.

I have made it possible for many colored women to abandon the washtub for a more pleasant and profitable occupation.

I have always held myself out as a hair culturist. I grow hair.

I feel that I am in a business that is a credit to the womanhood of our race.

I want to live to help my race.

In a dream, a big black man appeared to me and told me what to mix up for my hair. I made up my mind I would begin to sell it.

I have built my own factory on my own ground, 38 by 208 feet. I employ in that factory seven people, including a bookkeeper, a stenographer, a cook and a housegirl.

As I bent over the washboard and looked at my arms buried in soapsuds, I said to myself, 'What are you going to do when you grow old and your back gets stiff?' This set me to thinking, but with all my thinking I couldn't see how a poor washerwoman was going to better my condition.