Kinky Hair Quotes:

In this country, some aristocratic families automatically categorize persons with dark skin, thick lips, and kinky hair as "Barias" [Amharic for slave]... let it be clear to everybody that I shall soon make these ignoramuses stoop and grind corn!

- Mengistu Haile Mariam

source: "Mengistu Haile Mariam: The Profile of a Dictator". Ethiopian Review, February 1994.

topic: Country, Dark, Hair, Kinky Hair, Dark Skin

Because of writers like Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye … I realized that people like me, girls with skin the color of chocolate, whose kinky hair could not form ponytails, could also exist in literature.

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

topic: Girl, Hair, Color, Kinky Hair, Ponytails

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!

- Zoe Kravitz

source: Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

topic: Thinking, Hair, Years, Kinky Hair, Straight Hair

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.

- Paul Orfalea

topic: Baby, Thinking, Curly Hair, Kinky Hair, Kodak

black isn't beautiful and it isn't ugly - black is! It's not kinky hair and it's not straight hair - it just is.

- Gloria Naylor

source: Gloria Naylor (2005). “The Women of Brewster Place”, p.66, Penguin

topic: Beautiful, Hair, Black, Kinky Hair, Straight Hair

I adore my black skin and my kinky hair. The Negro hair is more educated than the white man's hair. Because with Negro hair, where you put it, it stays. It's obedient. The hair of the white, just give one quick movement, and it's out of place. It won't obey. If reincarnation exists I want to come back black.

- Carolina Maria de Jesus

source: Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”

topic: Men, White, Hair, Kinky Hair, Black Skin