Quotes About Nappy Hair

#1. What price would God demand from the churches for having the audacity to lighten the color of his son's skin, and straighten out his nappy hair?

Dick Gregory

#2. The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life.

R.A. Salvatore

#3. The past should not be a place where we live, but something from which we learn.

Stormie O'martian

#4. If your hair is relaxed, white people are relaxed. If your hair is nappy, they're not happy.

Paul Mooney

#5. A heads up ... so you're not too disappointed that Disney lied - no matter how much you wish it, I'll still be here when you open your eyes.

Samantha Young

#6. I guess there are very few actors that I've worked with that I would like to work with again. You never think you'll have that chance and, if we didn't do Italian Job together, there wouldn't be another one that could be right.

Charlize Theron

#7. There is no place more lonely
Than a rich man's home.

Margarita Engle

#8. Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!

Stokely Carmichael

#9. You want perfection, go to a bowling alley!

John Calipari

#10. [Doing a bilingual album] helped artistically because whenever I got bored of writing in English, I would write in Spanish. It's always cool when you have the choice.

Enrique Iglesias

#11. Every comedian dreams of hosting 'The Tonight Show' and, for seven months, I got to. I did it my way, with people I love, and I do not regret a second.

Conan O'Brien

#12. It's Christmas time and my rhyme's steady bumpin.
Everybody happy, hair still nappy,
Gonna steal a gift for my old grandpappy ...

Snoop Dogg

#13. Because I was really white and because a cruel fairy stepmother, who was understandably jealous of my beauty, had turned me into a too-big Negro girl, with nappy black hair, broad feet and a space between her teeth that would hold a number-two pencil.

Maya Angelou

#14. Who I was was not acceptable to black L.A. youth: the way I spoke and my sense of humor. Everybody else had relaxers and pressed hair. I wore my hair in an Afro puff. Nappy. The way I dressed. It was all about name brands at the time in L.A. I had no idea. All those things, I failed miserably at.

Issa Rae

#15. To forgive' is divine they say, and 'to forget', attracts blessings, but to go a step further, and learn a lesson from a bad encounter/ experience is an act of wisdom;and promise oneself that you will never allow yourself to be exposed to such a thing or a person or even an idea again.

Henrietta Newton Martin

#16. Ultimately, innovation depends on the people with advanced skills who have the ideas, and on the business risk-takers willing to back them.

Anthony Pratt

#17. Just heard a commercial
which told me
Farmer John smokes his own
bacon.
now, there's one tough
son of a
bitch.

Charles Bukowski

#18. You better have some skills in this world. You better bring something to the dinner party or you will be the dinner.

Bryant McGill

#19. The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not.

Marc Almond