As a curly hair woman, I didn’t always understand the impact hair has on our identity. Much like I did with my hair, I abused or ignored or altered who I was for the sake of fitting in. Maybe even to be loved by a boy. But, after giving birth to my biracial children, curly hair has never looked more beautiful to me. Though seen as radical, the natural hair that grows out of our head is wonderfully made. These curly hair quotes are a reminder to my mixed girl that the relationship between a woman and her curls can be a complicated journey, but exhilarating one nonetheless.
I write about my love for curly hair kids all the time but sometimes need a reminder. Natural hair quotes and even a few funny hair quotes are important because the reflections are true and humanize an experience not often talked about in mainstream media. I hope you love them all as much as we do!
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Curly Hair Quotes
“I love my hair because it’s a reflection of my soul. It’s dense, it’s kinky, it’s soft, it’s textured, it’s difficult, it’s easy and it’s fun. That’s why I love my hair.” – Tracee Ellis Ross
“I keep my hair curly and natural because I really just wanna show who I am.” – Alessia Cara
“As a young girl, I definitely struggled with knowing what to do with my hair. I was just in a neighborhood that had mostly white people, and the hair norm was long and sleek and straight. My hair naturally was curly, and I didn’t have that many references.” – Jillian Hervey
“For years I used to try to straighten my hair, but I’ve reached a stage where I think, ‘I’ve got red curly hair, and it’s actually really great.” – Bonnie Langford
“I feel that the kinks, curls, or tight coils in Afro hair is beautiful and unique. No other race on this planet has hair like ours – that makes me proud.” – Monica Millner
“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.” – Erin Wasson
“I used to be very insecure about my curly hair, because I lived in a country where everybody had blonde straight hair.” – Diane von Furstenberg
“Shug Avery sat up in bed a little today. I wash and comb out her hair. She got the nottiest, shortest, kinkiest hair I ever saw, and I loves every strand of it.” – Alice Walker, The Color Purple
“Of the small gifts of heaven/ it seems to me a more than equal share/ at birth was given/ to girls with curly hair.” – Phyllis McGinley
“I actually love my natural hair when it’s in a twist out and it’s been slept on for five days and revived by the steam of the shower.” – Solange Knowles
“Whenever something went wrong when I was young – if I had a pimple or if my hair broke – my mom would say, Sister mine, I’m going to make you some soup. And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.” – Maya Angelou
“For me, hair is an accouterment. Hair is jewelry. It’s an accessory.” – Jill Scott
“It has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it’s about you and what you feel for my music. If I can make you feel the way that people who influenced me made me feel, that’s completion.” – Erykah Badu
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Empowering Natural Hair Quotes
“I am not my hair
I am not this skin
I am a soul that lives within”
– India.Arie
“I cried, I cried… it was such an emotional experience and it wasn’t just about hair. It was what my perception of beauty was and had been for all of my life.” – Teyonah Parris on going natural
“Curly girl: It’s more than just hair, it’s an attitude.” – Lorraine Massey
“Racism is very characteristic of imperialism and capitalism. Hate against me has a lot to do with racism. Because of my big mouth and curly hair. And I’m so proud to have this mouth and this hair, because it is African.” – Hugo Chavez
“Willow cut her hair because her beauty, her value, her worth is not measured by the length of her hair.” – Jada Pinkett Smith
“I’m a very outgoing person. I’m always happy, I’m one of those people who are always smiling. If somebody described me to somebody else, they’d say the kid with the curly hair with the big smile on his face. I get along with everybody.” – Corbin Bleu
“That overzealous new natural is not intentionally trying to cause you pain. She just lovingly wants her sister to know the freedom of accepting, loving and nurturing her natural hair texture. Once that level of freedom is achieved, one can truly know that we are not our hair.” – Monica Millner
“I want to talk about natural black hair, and how it’s not just hair. I mean, I’m interested in hair in sort of a very aesthetic way, just the beauty of hair, but also in a political way: what it says, what it means.” – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“I was shy but it came out in a big personality. My turning point was when I let my hair go naturally.” – Tracee Ellis Ross
“When I cut my hair, the whole sound changed.” – Rihanna
“We are often told we can’t have brains and beauty, and I really hope that my message is that you can put on that red lip and curl your hair and put on that power dress – you don’t have to sacrifice one for the other.” – Tyra Banks
“Here’s the thing, men have to also mature in how they see women, too. Because they need to understand that it’s not just about how we look, it’s about who we are. And I am going to tell you like this: if you can’t love me with short hair, and you telling me I got to have long hair to be loved, guess what, I ain’t the one for you.” – Jada Pinkett Smith
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Funny Hair Quotes on Curls
“For so many years, I was trying to beat my hair into submission, trying to get it to look like someone else’s hair, and I didn’t know how. I remember going through a phase where I even put beer in my hair, because I was told that would make it smooth and curly.” – Tracee Ellis Ross
“When I was a kid, I got a bob because all of the other girls on my soccer team with straight hair had one, and so I wanted one. Now I know girls with thick, curly hair should not get bobs. My hair was like one big circle.” – Lily Alridge
“I’m a big woman. I need big hair.” – Aretha Franklin
“I’ve always been intrigued by color and by interesting hair. I was one of those weird little girls doing my own hair at the age of 9. I was, like, getting weird gels and new brushes and cornrow holders. I would tweak and perm at the age of 13.” – Nicki Minaj
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