Body Quote by A'Lelia Bundles

It's hard enough to be a middle-school kid, because you're dealing with so many facets of your identity - you're changing socially, you're changing…

— Rick Riordan

Run a hand through your hair, like the white boys do, even though the only thing that runs easily through your hair is Africa.

— Junot Diaz

When you go through all your life processing and abusing your hair so it will look like the hair of another race of people…

— Assata Shakur

I didn't want to be a 16-year-old kid being beaten up by a bunch of people who didn't like me 'cause of the colour…

— Lenny Henry

My hair journey involved a lot of trying to figure out how to deal with my hair as a bi-racial girl in a white…

— Soledad O'Brien

I think that it's hard enough being an adolescent and wanting so much to fit in with your peers, your schoolmates, and to erase…

— Natasha Trethewey

I'm trying not to be a kid all the time, but it's hard.

— Jaromir Jagr

People don't believe this, but until sixth grade I'd never seen a white person who wasn't with the police or on TV.

— Patrick Beverley

Your hair is so white now it can talk back to the police.

— Cecily Strong

It's hard enough growing up and figuring out who you are and what on earth you wanna be and it doesn't help when people…

— Selena Gomez

Everyone should have hair. When you get dressed up, you must do that last whip of hair spray, or life's not worth living.

— Charles Nelson Reilly

When I was younger, living in an all-black neighborhood the other kids thought I was better than them because of my light skin and…

— Halle Berry