She used her wealth and philanthropy to contribute... -A\'Lelia Bundles

She used her wealth and philanthropy to contribute to Black schools and colleges, she gave the largest gift the NAACP had ever received to it's anti-lynching fund... Madam Walker's life was one of transformation and re-invention.

A'Lelia Bundles , Journalist
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A'Lelia Bundles is a journalist and author, known for her insightful contributions to various publications. She has been dedicated to sharing stories and highlighting the experiences of African Americans, particularly through her writings and investigative journalism.

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Every ethnic group has a mythology... Until 'Roots'... there was nothing in the popular culture to refute the paragraph in elementary school history c...
Madam Walker's legacy lives in her philanthropy as well as in an amazing line of hair care products....
Madame Walker was one of the four iconic women who really created what's now the modern hair-care and cosmetics industry, and we know about her in the...
Today, there's no excuse for not learning how to get our financial houses in order. Some of us close our eyes, take a deep breath and say a prayer whe...
Madam Walker was a master marketer. But her brilliance was in taking it to another level by training women, by traveling, by making very motivational ...
People will buy products for quality, and they will buy products for bargains....
We live in a culture where European beauty standards are dominant....
One of the key things for me about Madame Walker's life is that she really does represent this first generation out of slavery when black people were ...
As one of the pioneers of modern hair care and cosmetics, Madam Walker is still an inspiration to a lot of people going into the business....
Why is she Mrs. C.J. Walker? It really was a matter of her trying to insist that people respect her, because during that time, white people would call...

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If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun....
To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal....
Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident....
To become 'unique,' the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination....
One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions....
Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been o...
No sanction can stand against ignited minds....
As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me....
Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities....
Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want....