Bessie Stringfield, (1911-1993)
My riding heroine Bessie Stringfield is among only 18 women to have been inducted into the American Motorcyclist Association’s Hall of Fame. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, she was the first African American female motorcyclist to ride the United States solo.
“Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.” —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.” –Zora Neale Hurston
