It takes a long time, I think, to get to the place where you realize you may love the hairstyle that somebody else has.

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• A'Lelia Bundles:

  I wrote my first report about Madam Walker when I was a senior in high school in 1970.

• A'Lelia Bundles:

  Madame Walker was one of the four iconic women who really created what's now the modern hair-care a

• A'Lelia Bundles:

  I think Michelle Obama ought to wear her hair exactly the way she wants to wear her hair. I am not

• A'Lelia Bundles:

  And mothers and daughters - mothers need to help their daughters love their hair. And some mothers

• A'Lelia Bundles:

  One of the key things for me about Madame Walker's life is that she really does represent this firs

• A'Lelia Bundles:

  You know the AME Church has a history of empowering black people and having an international outloo

• A'Lelia Bundles:

  By 1916, as Madam Walker herself was developing more assertive views on race, she was becoming eage

• A'Lelia Bundles:

  Madam Walker, as part of the first generation out of slavery, really was inventing the way that she

• A'Lelia Bundles:

  She was born Sarah Breedlove on a plantation in Delta, Louisiana, where her parents had been slaves

• A'Lelia Bundles:

  I think a lot of times, the historical piece is often a way to comment on the present.