To her credit, Madam Walker discerned that black women wanted to conform to white Victorian models of beauty. She was aware of the double- sidedness of her products - helping black women appear more European in look, with straight hair - but she always maintained that she was simply selling products that promoted hair growth.
My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.
Reading about Queen Victoria has been a passion of mine since, as a child, I came across Laurence Housman's play 'Happy and Glorious,' with its Ernest Shepard illustrations.
I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.
Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone.
Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God.
Only legislative, judicial, and executive action can completely guarantee the victory of the free world.
As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious.
My most memorable food challenge was probably the Big Texan in Amarillo. All the big executives called me because it was such an iconic challenge, and a victory in that would be a legitimizing device for myself as much as for the show.
