"I had to go down and dignify this work, so much so that many of the best women of our race are now engaged in this line of business, and many of them are now in my employ."

"There would be no hair growing business today had I not started it."

"I want to be remembered as a woman who helped her people."

"I had to go to work to help my mother support the family. I was a child of the Reconstruction period."

"My object in life is not simply to make money for myself, but to use my money and influence for the uplift of my race."