Answers Quote by Melissa Harris-Perry

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

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 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

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

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

— Solange Knowles

Black women have kinky hair, and we think we have limitations on what we can do. It's interesting that people think, 'Oh this is…

— Zoe Kravitz

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

The thing about black women and black hair is that you just have to experiment.

— Yvonne Orji

I adore my black skin and my kinky hair. The Negro hair is more educated than the white man's hair. Because with Negro hair,…

— Carolina Maria de Jesus

When a Black man or woman shows up for a job interview or to work, they should never be judged based on their hairstyle.…

— Ned Lamont

I think it's so important to represent beautiful, natural, healthy Black hair on television and in media, so the young women who feel pressured…

— Joy Taylor

It's fascinating how much of our sense of attractiveness and feminine identity is bound up in our hair,

— Natalie Dormer