Adult life Quote by Judi Love

It was great growing up with my dad as a hairdresser - you get free haircuts! We always had amazing shampoos, too, but I…

— Stacy Martin

I grew up in my father's salon. At first, I didn't want anything to do with the hair industry because I wanted to rebel…

— Brad Mondo

I'm very fortunate. I loved school and, when I went there, race, gangs and violence were not issues. There was a feeling, gone now,…

— David Harewood

I was like other teenagers in the late 1960s; I too was very interested in having an Afro and getting rid of the perm…

— A'Lelia Bundles

I left school at the age of 16 with no education or income; taking the first job I could get working in a hair salon.

— Keeley Hazell

There came a point when I wanted to do television, and I didn't think the Afro was going to play, so I made a…

— Jami Floyd

I used to be a hairdresser.

— Dee Dee Ramone

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

When I first colored my hair, my mother loved it. I got kicked out of school when I was 15, just for my hair.

— Tommy Bolin

Hair in the black community is such a big thing culturally. The barbershop is a place for black men to socialise, catch up and…

— Ncuti Gatwa

I was fortunate to have a sister who styles hair and a sister who braids hair. I really grew up wanting for nothing as…

— Quinta Brunson

As a child, I certainly wanted to have hair that I could grow long and flip around. I no longer want that. My own…

— Sophie Okonedo