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.
We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.
In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.
Ben Rome was a perfectionist. He checked every letter that went out to make sure the English was correct.
My children went to Bethesda Elementary School. I wouldn't do anything to endanger the safety of Bethesda.
I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.
