Straighten Your Hair Quotes

#1. George E. Johnson marketed the "relaxer," a chemical product used to straighten otherwise curly African American hair. According to some estimates, the black hair care industry is worth more than one billion dollars annually.

Nicola Yoon

#2. You need not fear it, but you must always bear in mind that the past is never quite as finished with you as you think you are with it.

Kathryn Kennish

#3. 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.

Jami Floyd

#4. How true,' returned the measured, featureless voice. 'I would chuckle in amused agreement, but the laughter switches of my translator have been malfunctioning for the past six hours. You understand.'

'Certainly,' I said. And somehow felt much more comfortable.

Samuel R. Delany

#5. In a game like football, where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do, you have to react almost instinctively, naturally.

Vince Lombardi

#6. He sat on his bed watching Willa straighten her hair. We may have been in crisis mode, but that didn't mean her hair had to look like it.

Amanda Hocking

#7. The wise man is glad to be instructed, but a self-sufficient fool falls flat on his face.

Anonymous

#8. All that matters is that the thing be the thing of the thing.

Charles Olson

#9. She stood before him fully clothed yet gloriously naked. He saw the universe through her and began to give praise!

Sanjo Jendayi

#10. I touch her again, another teasing press of my fingers to her pussy. She's so soft and wet. I want to put my mouth on her. Suck her. Bite her. Lick her. Fuck her with my tongue. Fuck her with my fingers.

Monica Murphy

#11. 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

#12. He ran both his hands through his hair, as if somehow that would straighten out his thoughts.

Margaret George

#13. I have very curly hair and I straighten it every day - it takes maybe two minutes. I can't imagine anyone having a bigger challenge than I do in the kinkiness that is my crazy 'fro.'

Ginnifer Goodwin

#14. 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

#15. Just then Jagger walks in, his hair all ruffled and his body hard and firm. We all stop talking and stare as he runs his hands through his hair in an attempt to straighten it up.
"Take a picture ladies, it lasts longer." he mutters

Bec Botefuhr

#16. If being a perfect soldier meant continuing to follow any fucking order I was given, then I would have to settle for being a mediocre soldier.

Stan Goff

#17. Human hair takes much more attention, as far as holding the style. You have to comb it, straighten it out, and wash and dry it.

Beverly Johnson

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

Jami Floyd

#19. Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong.

Hesiod

#20. My hair and I had a really bad argument. She was being sprayed with alcohol and burnt with irons. She was being over processed and yanked and pulled by weave strings and suffocated by glue. She told me if I didn't straighten up and fly right that she was leaving.

Chrisette Michele

#21. It's so hard to fight against someone who is stuck in what they believe whether you agree with it or not.

Emayatzy E. Corinealdi

#22. Even if you apply any kind of lotion and straighten your hair you will never be white.

Jacob Zuma

#23. I have always said that archival images are images without imagination. They petrify thought and kill any power of evocation.

Claude Lanzmann

#24. Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?

Ernesto Che Guevara

#25. 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.

Jami Floyd