Barbara Walden

"“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"