Madam C.J. Walker:

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!

— Madam C.J. Walker Modern

First female self-made millionaire

Speech to her agents

1913

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Cross Reference

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