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.
Twenty is a tough age because it slips past in the middle of so much else - university, gap year, leaving home, getting jobs.
I was a bit of a lost lamb in my twenties, trying to find my higher calling.
Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
Being a straight white guy in his, like, early twenties - there's some sort of thing about it. A sort of privilege, a sort of anger or something. You just say some really stupid things.
I thought twenty was pretty scary, like, not being able to call myself a teenager anymore, and feeling like an adult - that kind of made me nervous.
I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
Being a new band, I just can't think of a better way to get your name out to all of the Hard-Rock crowd than playing with twenty of the biggest Hard-Rock bands in the world.
I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.
What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
