Beautiful Quote by Joy Taylor

I am a bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to black women's hair. Hair is hair - yet also about larger questions: self-acceptance…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

As a black woman, there's so much pride and communication through hair. It's naturally something that you are excited to embellish on and be…

— Kelela

I think many people, especially from other cultures, just don't understand the role hair plays in Black women's lives.

— Solange Knowles

Our society's framework for black women reads as such: strong, indignant and fiercely independent with endless resilience; a myriad of expectations entirely at odds…

— Jerrika Hinton

I think it's important to represent black women and our natural hair. Not wearing a weave is totally beautiful and acceptable.

— Zoe Kravitz

Black women's hair is a complicated and skillful thing that you need to know in order to tackle it and make it look great.

— Paterson Joseph

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

Black women are some of the most colorful women in the world. We come in all shadeshave so many hair textures..eye colors..body types. In…

— Skye Townsend

To be able to have my natural hair on TV, that will encourage so many more women who wear their hair natural who are…

— Simone Missick

I've read some things where people are like, 'Beyonce wants to be white' because she has blonde highlights in her hair, but it's ridiculous.…

— Tina Knowles

I think what is magic about black-girl hair is, at its basic level, it's just resilient. It can go from straight to curly in…

— Mara Brock Akil

Because Western society has Eurocentric ideas about what is beautiful and and that means Black girls have to go above and beyond to feel…

— Judi Love