A'Lelia Bundles
A'Lelia Bundles

You know the AME Church has a history of empowering black people and having an international outlook. So it was the women of the church who began to give Sarah Breedlove an image of herself as something other than an illiterate washerwoman, and she wanted to make her life better, and her daughter's life better.

A'Lelia Bundles
A'Lelia Bundles

Madam Walker was a woman who transformed herself in a very American, rags-to-riches way.

A'Lelia Bundles
A'Lelia Bundles

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.

A'Lelia Bundles
A'Lelia Bundles

By 1916, as Madam Walker herself was developing more assertive views on race, she was becoming eager to assume her place alongside Harlem's famous, influential and intriguing residents.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

A cravat has to be approached with consummate self-confidence and a devilish nonchalance. A cravat has to be grasped by a man who knows how to treat a cravat.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

I'm too vain to go on TV. I'd be a monster of self-consciousness. Plus, I've got a ridiculous voice - I sound like a camp friend of Bertie Wooster's.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

Nature gave you your look and there's only a limited amount you can do about that, but what you wear is the skin you choose for yourself.

A. A. Milne
A. A. Milne

I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.

A. A. Milne
A. A. Milne

I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.

A. B. Yehoshua
A. B. Yehoshua

We're living with the Arabs; we have to understand them... Through knowing the Arabs, you know yourself better.