Madam Walker was a woman who transformed herself in a very American, rags-to-riches way.
If a CEO takes an interest in you and he happens to be an Asian man, then that's great, but as an African-American woman, you want to make sure that if the executive vice-president of the company is an African-American woman that you get to know her.
As much as any woman of the twentieth century, Madam Walker paved the way for the profound social changes that altered women's place in American society.
Women of African descent, since the beginning of time, have altered their hair, decorated it and used it to designate status.
When Americans come to London they usually say how much they love the history, the tradition, the splendid tumpty-tum of things whose very repetition has become their point.
I come from two parts of the oriental community - Jerusalemite and North African Jews.
Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.
All I ever wanted to be was president of the American League.
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
