Quote of the Day: Madam C.J. Walker on Entrepreneurship

You can read this Madam C.J. Walker quote, from her speech to the National Negro Business League (1912), in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. Read more about Walker here. Suggested Reading 13 Black Female Artists Who Taught Women To Own Their Sexual Desires All About Nene Leakes Long-Awaited Return What We Know About Usher, Justin Bieber’s Confrontation at Beyonce’s…

You can read this Madam C.J. Walker quote, from her speech to the National Negro Business League (1912), in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. Read more about Walker here.

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Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and founding director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is also the editor-in-chief of The Root. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.

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