“The music, and the banquet, and the wine-- The garlands, the rose odors, and the flowers, The sparkling eyes, and flashing ornaments-- The white arms and the raven hair--the braids, And bracelets; swan-like bosoms, and the necklace, An India in itself, yet dazzling not.” EyeWhiteFlowerHairArmsIndiaWineRoseBosomsOrnamentsSwansDazzlingRavensSparklingOdorBanquetsGarlandsNecklacesBraceletBraids Author:Lord Byron
“I made a braid because Chinese old people, they say that the God will take you by the hair to join you with - but God didn't take me, so I cut the braid.” PeopleMadeCuttingHairGods WillChineseTake MeOld PeopleBraids Author:Agnes Varda
“Across the curve of the earth, there are women getting up before dawn, in the blackness before the point of light, in the twilight before sunrise; there are women rising earlier than men and children to break the ice, to start the stove, to put up the pap, the coffee, the rice, to iron the pants, to braid the hair, to pull the day's water up from the well, to boil water for tea, to wash the children for school, to pull the vegetables and start the walk to market, to run to catch the bus for the work that is paid. I don't know when most women sleep.” KnowsMenWellsChildrenLightRunningSchoolEarthWaterSleepWalksBreakHairPaidCoffeeIceTeaDawnRisingIronBusVegetablesPantsTwilightSunriseCurvesRiceBlacknessStovesBraidsPoints Of LightBefore Sunrise Author:Adrienne Rich
“When I first came out, I was a film student and my mom sewed clothes. I was already doing a million things then, whatever it took to survive. If I had to braid someone's hair to get one pound for my lunch money, that's what I did. But I did it in the most creative way possible.” IfsWayFirstsFilmMillionsCreativeStudentsHairMomClothesMy MomPoundsLunchBraidsFilm Students Author:M.I.A.
“Whenever I go on vacation I like to change up my hair - I'll braid it or get dreads - but my favorite is just keeping it short and curly.” HairGoes OnMy FavoriteVacationDreadBraids Author:Herieth Paul
“It's too hot for me to bother with wearing my hair down in the summer. I'd rather pin it up in braids, or throw it in a top knot so I don't have to think about it the rest of the day.” ThinkingHairSummerHotBotherPinsKnotsBraids Author:Mia Moretti
“I miss my hair, but I feel like going out there with some fake braids wouldn't be right. I want to be the most genuine performer I can be.” WantFeelsI CanMissingHairGenuineFakePerformersGoing OutBraids Author:Sharon Jones
“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
“No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness, the rebelliousness.” WritingOrderDarkLike YouHairShapesCornersSculptureTwistsPotatoesStatuesOnionsBraidsStiffness Author:Edwidge Danticat
“How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how his stomach knotted up every time he saw her shake loose her hair from its braid? How could he describe how it felt when she finished his sentences, turnec the mug they were sharing so that her mouth landed where his had been? How did he explain the way they could be in a locker room, or underwater, or in the piney woods of Maine, bus as long as Em was with him, he was at home?” WayLongHomeFeltRoomsSawsHairMetsMouthsRainWoodsSentencesFinishedShakesEmsStomachBusLockersMaineUnderwaterLocker RoomMugBraids Author:Jodi Picoult