A'Lelia Bundles Quotes

As a child, I certainly wanted to have hair that I could grow long and flip around. I no longer want that. My own hair that I have day to day is a fuzzy afro. And that's who I am.

I had been getting relaxers since I was eight or nine. I had no clue. It was a personal mission to really find out who am when I'm not altering myself to look like anybody else. Who am I when I wake up and I don't do anything to my hair? Who is that woman? I want to meet her. And that was what catapulted my journey into going natural.

As I get older, I'm more comfortable in my skin.

We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

It's a beautiful thing at 60 to know who you are.

I like growing up; I feel like I have an old soul. I like the age to match as much as it can.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.

The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself.

With aging, you earn the right to be loyal to yourself.

Growing up, getting older, your age - you get to the point where you're comfortable in your own skin, you know who you are.

I've had a difficult relationship with my hair my whole life.

Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the time and experience and failures and triumphs and friends who helped me step into the shape that had been waiting for me all my life...I not only get along with me most of the time now, I am militantly and maternally on my own side.

I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it.

I'm not afraid to play my age. I never was. I've never been an ingenue. I like getting older.

There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.

I'm going to be 60, and I'm almost used to myself.

I have no problem being 53. Why would I want to be 35 again? I want to discover who I am in my 50s. And if I tried too hard to look younger, it would seem that I was uncomfortable with who I am, wouldn't it?

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

I'm not afraid of a rant, am I? I've got to that point where I've just become a woman; I think I've just grown.

The older I get, the more I embrace who I am.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

The older you get, the more yourself you can be and the less worried you are about what other people think.