"I want to see the Negro women of this country become independent and self-supporting."

"I am a living example of what can be accomplished by an American Negro woman who had the courage to follow her own convictions."

"My success has not been attained by any special favor of Providence, but by my own efforts."

"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!"

"I am not ashamed of my past. I am not ashamed of my humble beginning."