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I am so happy that the web has so much to offer—much more than just a year ago!! The thing that makes me even happier, is that kinnks.com is starting to leave a small foot print!! (*Updated March 13, 2010)
I was a very naive child. As I grow older, I am slowly learning to balance trust and what I like to call, hurt prevention.
There is a fine line ….
One can end up miserable and alone
With or without people around
I love Natural Hair so much because it is naive.
If you tell it is ugly, it will believe you.
Like life, if you believe in its greatness, it will be great!
To me Ota Benga was not naive, but a trusting man. He, unfortunately was surrounded by people that made him feel like an animal…. so he became violent like an animal.
I stopped relaxing my hair in January of 2004. It was after I had to take a semester off from school because I couldn’t pay the tuition. I don’t know if it was because my hair was the only thing I had control of at the time or if I just didn’t feel like dealing with it; but which ever it was going natural was the best thing I’ve ever done.
You never realize how important something like hair is, how it shapes who you are, how much it affects your self esteem until you have taken your hair out of its “comfort zone”. For as long as I can remember I’ve had a perm, and I’ve never had hair issues or I never thought I had hair issues. No one made fun of me because my hair was “nappy” or “kinky”. If anything I never heard these words in reference to my hair until I went natural. I gradually heard these things and being Ghanaian I heard other things that black culture may not be so privy to. For instance my aunt telling me I look like a Gollywog or Motalewaa -a Gollywog is similar to a gremlin or troll in African culture and Motalewaa is equivalent to the folk tale Americans know as Rumpelstiltskin. Read More
Once we fee ourselves from the need to FIX our hair, “pulling through tangles” will no longer become a task.~Lady Kinnks
External Link: The Root’s Twist on Hair
Yodith Dammlash and Delece Smith-Barrow
Contributors to The Root
“For many black women, a trip to the salon is more than just pampering. A missed appointment can add hours to a black woman’s week—pulling through tangles and wrestling with blow-dryers and flatirons. Read More
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