A'Lelia Bundles
A'Lelia Bundles

Madam Walker, as part of the first generation out of slavery, really was inventing the way that she operated in the world.

A'Lelia Bundles
A'Lelia Bundles

Madame Walker selected Indianapolis as the headquarters for her growing business more than a century ago in 1910 because of its central location and thriving black business community.

A'Lelia Bundles
A'Lelia Bundles

For more than three years, I'd been part of a complex and frustrating dance as my nonfiction, fact-based material was translated from book to movie by scriptwriters whose visions, goals and sensibilities often were quite different from mine.

A'Lelia Bundles
A'Lelia Bundles

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. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

Learning Jimmy Carr riffs off by heart is not the way to anyone's heart, unless you're Jimmy Carr. And remember, the two most attractive things in a man is a sense of danger and being able to make a girl feel really safe.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

I've often been accused of dressing too well. I've always been fascinated by fashion, though I don't think I'm particularly fashionable.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

I don't do dinner parties. I have people come to share the food I've cooked for the family.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

I don't go to the openings of shops or parties given by people I don't know.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

Personal adornment is the only cultural form that everybody in the world takes part in.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

My only piece of advice is that all of you consider every single text and Snapchat that you ever make as also being shared with your partner, because they all check your phones all the time - trust me on this one.