Hair Quote of the Week

"By 2004, Black women were the fastest group of women being diagnosed with eating disorders. Many of us are dangerously overweight, and unprecedented numbers are turning to elective cosmetic surgery to "fix" what we consider unsightly. The majority of us chemically straighten our hair, spending $12 billion annually to transform the structure of our tresses out of "necessity rather than choice." 

~  Taken from the book Naked, edited by Ayana Byrd and Akiba Solomon

Hair Quote of the Week

"But for a black woman, it is most often her hair that catches her racial imagination. Her hair holds what she loves and hates about herself and shapes her experience of family, lovers, and friends. It forms her most intimate experiences of gender, race, social class, the humid summer, and the ocean. Hair is not only a marker for racial difference and gender-specific beauty, but the marker that seems most malleable. Black women spend thousands of dollars and hours to achieve dreams of love and acceptance through their hair. All things are possible through a tame "kitchen" (the rebellious, quickest-to-kink-up area at the nape of the neck), a few more inches, or the illusion of loose crinkles."

~ Asali Solomon, taken from the book Naked, edited by Ayana Byrd and Akiba Solomon