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Jami Floyd Quotes: I've done lots of pieces on self-esteem and hair. There's a desire to conform, but if the encouragement to be yourself is there from loved ones, you'll find that later, that true self will come out.
         

I've done lots of pieces on self-esteem and hair. There's a desire to conform, but if the encouragement to be yourself is there from loved ones, you'll find that later, that true self will come out.


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My parents pressed upon me that "In this world, you are a black woman," so I was political about my hair and would not straighten it.

My parents pressed upon me that "In this world, you are a black woman," so I was political about my hair and would not straighten it.



My mother's white, and she didn't know how to do my hair, so I had something that I always call white-mama hair.

My mother's white, and she didn't know how to do my hair, so I had something that I always call white-mama hair.



There came a point when I wanted to do television, and I didn't think the Afro was going to play, so I made a very difficult choice - to straighten my hair.

There came a point when I wanted to do television, and I didn't think the Afro was going to play, so I made a very difficult choice - to straighten my hair.



Often hair is the way we are differentiated in this culture. To me the decision to straighten your hair is deeply political.

Often hair is the way we are differentiated in this culture. To me the decision to straighten your hair is deeply political.



For black women our sense of ourselves is not always consistent with the way other people see us.

For black women our sense of ourselves is not always consistent with the way other people see us.





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