“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 this generation, it's sad to see so many black girls claiming ethnicities that they know nothing about in hopes of impressing a man or appearing 'exotic'. So many people act as if being black and beautiful is impossible. It's not. If we wanna get technical and look at our history, almost every black American is mixed. But we must stop implying that a woman's beauty comes from a part of her that is not black.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenWorldLooksBodyEyeBeautifulGirlBlackImpossibleGenerationsColorHairTypeImpressBlack WomenTextureExoticAppearingColorfulEthnicityThis GenerationBlack GirlImplyingBody TypesEye ColorWomen's Beauty Author:Skye Townsend
“My parents pressed upon me that "In this world, you are a black woman," so I was political about my hair and would not straighten it.” WorldPoliticalParentBlackThis WorldHairBlack Women Author:Jami Floyd
“I think many people, especially from other cultures, just don't understand the role hair plays in Black women's lives.” PeopleThinkingPlayCultureBlackRolesHairBlack WomenOther Cultures Author:Solange Knowles
“My mother was a woman. A black woman. A single mother. Raising two kids on her own. So she was dark skinned. Had short hair. Got no love from nobody except for a group called the Black Panthers. So that's why she was a Black Panther.” TwoKidsMotherBlackDarkGroupsHairBlack WomenNo LoveSingle MotherPanthersShort HairBlack PantherDark Skinned Author:Tupac Shakur
“I'm an African woman, I suppose these thoughts torture me more than they do black American people, because it's like watching my own children trapped in a car that's sinking to the bottom of a lake and being impotent to save them'the black Americans have their own holocaust going on. You see the black man erasing black children from the landscape, you see black women desperately trying to get the black man's attention by wearing blonde hair and fake blue eyes, 500 years after he sold her and their children across the ocean.” PeopleMenTryingYearsChildrenEyeBlackMy OwnAttentionCarHairOceanBlueBottomLandscapeFakeTortureLakesHolocaustTrappedBlack WomenBlondeSinkingBlue EyesBlonde HairAfrican Women Author:Kola Boof
“From childhood forward, our hair is one of the most critical, defining aspects of our embodied selves as black women: how we get it done... how we have to focus on it... the questions we have to answer about it... and so forth.” SelfDoneBlackAnswersFocusChildhoodHairAspectCriticalBlack WomenDefiningGet It Done Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“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!” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsBlackCan DoInterestingHairLimitationSay AnythingBlack WomenBlondeDon't ChangeKinkyStraight HairKinky Hair Author:Zoe Kravitz
“I think it's important to represent black women and our natural hair. Not wearing a weave is totally beautiful and acceptable.” ThinkingImportantBeautifulBlackNaturalHairAcceptableBlack WomenNatural Hair Author:Zoe Kravitz
“Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in New York City and see 10 different hairstyles that Black women are wearing: straight curls, short cuts, braids - we really run the gamut.” DifferentRunningBlackWalksCitiesCuttingStreetsStyleNew YorkHairUniqueBlockNew York CityBlack WomenCurlsHairstylesShort CutsBlack HairBraids Author:Queen Latifah