"Wat U Iz. wat u iz? a pawn? Here We are. Standing on the land of Our ancestors, on a place built upon the ingenuity and determination of a single Black woman: Madame CJ Walker, this country’s first self-made female millionaire. Over one hundred years have passed since the cornerstone was first laid on these grounds, and one hundred years later, with triumphs consistently overshadowed by trauma, we find ourselves at a fulcrum point: where do we go from here? " -Excerpt from Couture One.