Clear Quote by Assata Shakur

Race is a lie built on a lie. The first lie is that people are different, somehow skin color or hair texture is more…

— Benjamin Jealous

Talking about your hair becomes a framework for talking about your vanity, your self-esteem, your relationships with your family, your mortality.

— Elizabeth Benedict

What people don't get is that hair is such a big part of our identity.

— Melissa Etheridge

Hair brings one’s self-image into focus; it is vanity’s proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices

— Shana Alexander

“If you define yourself by your hair texture you have some soul searching to do. Start now the rest of us are tired of…

— Rae

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

Hair is a beautiful form of self-expression.

— Carolyn Aronson

From childhood forward, our hair is one of the most critical, defining aspects of our embodied selves as black women: how we get it…

— Melissa Harris-Perry

I think people need more to do in their life if my hair pisses them off.

— Anne Burrell

“Sometimes racial prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep…

— Marian Anderson

“Race doesn't exist. Skin color exists. Hair and eye color are real. Body type varies from individual to individual, as does tooth shape and…

— Holly Lisle

People get real comfortable with their features. Nobody gets comfortable with their hair. Hair trauma. It's the universal thing.

— Jamie Lee Curtis