A'Lelia Bundles Quotes

I've found that once people are introduced to Madam Walker's story, they are inspired but also perplexed about why she was omitted from their history lessons.

For many years Madam Walker was just a little footnote in history. As a woman who made haircare products, she was really consigned to something trivial.

There is a core of people who know and love Madam C.J. Walker, but there's a much larger audience who don't really know about her. I think 'Self Made' will give people a window into her life.

Madam Walker's legacy lives in her philanthropy as well as in an amazing line of hair care products.

Many people have told me that once they learn of Madam Walker's accomplishments they are surprised, even embarrassed, that they have never heard of her. But they shouldn't be. Her extraordinary story was simply omitted from the history books.

I've always been fascinated by Madam Walker's ability to use her money for political causes. I find her story so inspires people that it gives me great joy to share the story.

The saying was that Madam Walker made the money, and her daughter - my great-grandmother - spent it.

We didn't sit around the dining table talking about Madam Walker, but the silverware that we used every day had her monogram on it and our china for special occasions had been Madam Walker's china... and the baby grand piano on which I learned to read music had been in A'Lelia Walker's apartment in Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance.

A lot of people think Oprah is channeling for Madam Walker, and there are lots of parallels.

Madame Walker was mythologized like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, but I want to show that she was fabulous on her own.

'Restaurant Man' is kind of the story, an unabridged story of what happened in my life, the good bad and ugly. Some people might glean some life lessons. It is honest, not written as a press release.

I'm so thankful for my one year at regular high school in White Plains.

I was born in Champaign in 1918. From the neighborhood elementary and intermediate schools, I went to the University High School in the twin city, Urbana.

I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.

I went to high school in the 1970s and was a real daydreamer and not the best student.

I love 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.' That was like the only black book we read in high school.

I checked to see if there'd been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started with what Cleopatra would have read, asking myself, 'What can we know about her education?' It turns out to be a very great deal, and bizarrely, no one had written about that before.

I went out to visit Dorsey Burnette, after I graduated high school.

I first met Walt Disney 25 or 30 years ago.

I went to high school in Minnesota.

I remember seeing 'Dead Poet's Society,' and it made it appealing in a way that I actually went to prep school.

Working on the ABC movie 'Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy 'Satchel' Paige,'' which we filmed in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, was a special pleasure, particularly because I'd played baseball in high school.

I went to Manhattan Center High School.

I grew up up and down the East Coast mostly. I went to high school in Reston, Virginia.

DuBois - my intellectual hero - had written an obit of Madam, praising her... I began to see Madam Walker beyond the definitions others had given her.