“I was very short. Everybody else was two years older in my class, and I had curly hair and was teacher's pet.” YearsTwoClassTeacherHairPetTwo YearsCurly Hair Author:Howard Stringer
“I used to be very insecure about my curly hair, because I lived in a country where everybody had blonde straight hair.” CountryUsedHairUsed To BeInsecureBlondeCurly HairStraight Hair Author:Diane von Furstenberg
“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.” PeopleIfsThinkingFirstsBigsRememberNamesHairBabyGoogleNicknamesGood BusinessKinkyGagaConsonantsBig HeadsXeroxCurly HairKodakKinky Hair Author:Paul Orfalea
“Height isn't something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.” PeopleIfsNeedsFeelsIdeasUseBodyMightGirlNiceExampleParticularHairBasketballSizeTeethWeatherHeightObservingPlaying BasketballCurly HairNice Teeth Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“Of the small gifts of heaven, / It seems to me a more than equal share / At birth was given / To girls with curly hair.” SeemsGirlGivenHeavenShareHairBirthEqualCurly HairSmall Gifts Author:Phyllis McGinley
“I have very curly hair and I straighten it every day - it takes maybe two minutes. I can't imagine anyone having a bigger challenge than I do in the kinkiness that is my crazy 'fro.'” I CanTwoChallengesImagineCrazyMinutesHairBiggerCurly Hair Author:Ginnifer Goodwin
“One boy made fun of me because one day, I had really curly hair, and I wear glasses normally, and I also bite my nails. I feel like everyone is different in their own way, so, people shouldn't try to make them feel bad because of that.” PeopleWayFeelsTryingMadeDifferentFunBoysHairOne DayGlassesBitesNailsCurly HairEveryone Is Different Author:Elle Fanning
“The thing about curly hair is that it's a toss-up. Some days you can let it air dry and it's better than a hair-do, but some days you just look like a sloppy person. I'm really resistant to a trim. I only do it when it gets hard to brush out in the shower, then I'll submit, begrudgingly.” LooksPersonsHardAirHairDrySubmitShowersBrushesTossSloppyCurly Hair Author:Natasha Lyonne
“If I want to read S.J. Perelman's Chicken Inspector No. 23 for the third time instead of some anguished, politically correct saga of a girl growing up in a trailer park in Kingman, Arizona, with an alcoholic mother who makes her straighten her naturally curly hair and won't let her date a Navajo boy or pursue her goal of becoming (naturally) a writer, I will. And I will laugh like a lunatic while doing it.” IfsWantMotherGirlGoalBoysLaughingGrowing UpGrowingHairBecomingThirdsPursueParksChickensAlcoholicsLunaticArizonaTrailersPolitically CorrectSagaInspectorsThird TimeTrailer ParkCurly HairGirls Growing Up Author:Mel White
“Recently started flat ironing my ball hair. Come on ladies, you know how it is; if you have curly hair you just want straight hair.” IfsKnowsWantKnow HowHairBallsFlatsCurly HairStraight Hair Author:Daniel Tosh
“When I'm not working, I want to be the version of the person that I was born to be. I was born with curly hair. It fits my personality, and it's totally who I am. I am rough around the edges, and I am not a polished girl.” WantPersonsGirlBornHairPersonalityFitEdgesWho I AmVersionsRoughPolishedCurly Hair Author:Erin Wasson
“Grover wore his fake feet and his pants to pass as human. He wore a green rasta-style cap, because when it rained his curly hair flattened and you could just see the tips of his horns. His bright orange backpack was full of scrap metal and apples to snack on. In his pocket was a set of reed pipes his daddy goat had carved for him, even though he only knew two songs: Mozart's Piano Concerto no. 12 and Hilary Duff's "So Yesterday," both of which sounded pretty bad on reed pipes.” HumansTwoSongFeetStyleHairGreenYesterdayPianoFakeApplesPocketsMetalsPantsOrangeDaddyHornsCapsPipeGoatsScrapReedsSnacksGroverGrover UnderwoodRastaCurly HairScrap Metal Book:The lightning thief Source: The lightning thief
“I wish he hadn't gone and cut his hair. He looks about eight years old. His ears have tripled in size. Everyone's started calling him Dumbo. Which wouldn't be so bad, except they've started calling me Mrs. Dumbo. You can't even tell he's got curly hair anymore. There's nothing left to run my fingers through. Just this weird blond AstroTurf sprouting out of his skull.” YearsLooksRunningLeftWishGoneCuttingHairCallingEarsFingersSizeEightSkullsCurly HairDumbo Book:What My Mother Doesn't Know Source: What My Mother Doesn't Know
“I haven't come to you only to take , I haven't come to you empty handed : I bring you poetry as great as yours but in anther tongue , I bring you black eyes and golden skin and curly hair , I bring you Islam and Luxor and Alexandria and Lutes and tambourines and date-palms and silk rugs and sunshine and incense and voluptuous ways” WayEyeBlackHavensHairEmptySkinsIslamTongueGoldenSunshinePalmsSilkIncenseVoluptuousBlack EyesAlexandriaCurly Hair Book:In the Eye of the Sun Source: In the Eye of the Sun