TRAUMA, TRESSES, & TRUTH: A Virtual Conference Interrogating Black Women’s Natural Hair
Black women view their hair as a problem. To enjoy black hair, such negative thinking has to be unlearned. --bell hooks
Don’t remove the kinks from your hair. Remove them from your brain. --Marcus Garvey
It takes care and attention and time to handle natural hair. Something we have lost from our African culture are the rituals of health and beauty and taking time to anoint ourselves. And the first way we lost it was in our hair. --Hariette Cole, in Hair Story