Kinky Hair Quotes

• In this country, some aristocratic families automatically categorize persons with dark skin, thick lips, and kinky hair as "Barias" [Amharic for slave]... let it be clear to everybody that I shall soon make these ignoramuses stoop and grind corn!

  Mengistu Haile Mariam

  Country, Dark, Hair

  "Mengistu Haile Mariam: The Profile of a Dictator". Ethiopian Review, February 1994.

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• Because of writers like Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye … I realized that people like me, girls with skin the color of chocolate, whose kinky hair could not form ponytails, could also exist in literature.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Girl, Hair, Color

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• 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 the only thing they can do.' But if you have blonde, straight hair and don't change it for 20 years - nobody thinks about it. Nobody says anything!

  Zoe Kravitz

  Thinking, Hair, Years

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I called it Kinko’s because of my nickname — because I had this really kinky hair. If you think about it, the first thing a baby learns is ‘Googoo, gaga,’ and if you think of good businesses like Kodak, Xerox, Google, people remember consonants — which was why Kinko’s was a good name. But really I had this big head of curly hair and before being called ‘Kinko’ I was ‘Pube Head.’ So I thought Kinko’s was better than Pubo’s.

  Paul Orfalea

  Baby, Thinking, Curly Hair

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• black isn't beautiful and it isn't ugly - black is! It's not kinky hair and it's not straight hair - it just is.

  Gloria Naylor

  Beautiful, Hair, Black

  Gloria Naylor (2005). “The Women of Brewster Place”, p.66, Penguin

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• 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, where you put it, it stays. It's obedient. The hair of the white, just give one quick movement, and it's out of place. It won't obey. If reincarnation exists I want to come back black.

  Carolina Maria de Jesus

  Men, White Man, Hair

  Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”

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