Activist Quote by Michaela Angela Davis

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

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

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

The hair is the richest ornament of women.

— Martin Luther

Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion. The woman's sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he…

— John Berger

Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in New York…

— Queen Latifah

People really cared more about women's hair. But nobody takes you seriously with Jheri curls is what we've deduced. If you got an Afro…

— Chris Rock

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

“Perhaps inspired by Victoria, 18th-century American women treasured the spiritual properties of hair. To them, clipped hair was used to convey messages of friendship,…

— Kurt Stenn

A lot of African American women wanted to emulate white women. But I said in my mind, rationally thinking, there is no way you…

— Claudette Colvin

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