18 quotes found
"Wheels Up has redefined private aviation in the air and on the ground, and I am thrilled to further its strong trajectory of growth with a key focus on diversity,""
"“Listening to the planes take off and land” as a youngster, combined with family air travel and road trips between posts, fueled her interest in aviation. “We moved every two years,”"
"“My parents would make it an adventure—sightseeing and doing all the touristy stuff—and I was intrigued by it all.”"
"“My hat’s off to all military spouses,” she says. “If they’re working, they have to find a new job every two years.”"
"“As long as there are women in the world, there will always be beauty establishments.”"
"“Now is the time to plan your future by learning a depression proof business.”"
"You curl your hair, you make yourself look pretty. We are just as attractive as white people"
"She broke her own glass ceiling for black women. She used her money and power in a very constructive way."
"Someone that you always took seriously, someone that you did not dare ignore."
"“There was no makeup that worked on my skin. Dark pancake made me look purple. It streaked. It was awful.”"
"“They wanted pretty girls; they didn't mention color. Three hundred girls applied, I was the only black chosen.""
"“I didn't mind playing maids, but the dialogue was ridiculous.”"
"“The timing was right in the early 1970's. Black women were getting better jobs, had more money to spend and were interested in their looks.”"
""Once ham, always a ham.”"
"Our skin is different from white skin. For one thing, there is a wider variety of skin colors among blacks. Do you know that we have undertones of browns, oranges, reds and golds—and even purple—in our skin? But never pink, which is the most common undertone in white skins and white makeup."
"Official Barbara Walden Cosmetics Website – Internet Archive"
"I asked her] if she really thought colored women would be allowed to vote if the ballot privilege was conferred on them, as it is to the colored men of the South. She assured me that if it were made the law that women might vote, the right would not be denied them"
"I am American. I am Black. And I am proud that I’m Black"