My husband didn't want me to wear any black hairstyles. Nicole Kidman was his standard of beauty.
I'm just blessed because I'm Mexican. Mexican Americans have amazing hair!
When I was little I only had a few friends who had natural hair.
Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful, if you have that, but learn to love what you have.
I've wanted to be an actress my whole life, and the - none of the women I aspired to be like had natural hair.
I've had the exact same brown hair all my life, and my whole life, people have been telling me to change my hair.
I think it's important to change your hair up once in a while - not to always remain the same.
At home, my daughter Azura has got this long blonde wig that she loves, and she's obsessed with Rapunzel, but you need to have balance. It's important that she understands her curly hair is beautiful, too.
My hairstyle is not common in India, where my parents come from.
I think what is magic about black-girl hair is, at its basic level, it's just resilient. It can go from straight to curly in the same day. It's just transformative. When you don't feel so strong, the hair can be a sign of empowerment.
Bobbed hair makes women look uniform. They lack individuality.
It's amazing that it's considered revolutionary to wear my hair the way it grows out of my head.
I think Michelle Obama ought to wear her hair exactly the way she wants to wear her hair. I am not looking for Michelle Obama to cut her hair off like I have mine, very short. I'm not looking for her to do twists. I'm looking for her to wear what's comfortable for her.
In particular 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.
When I was younger, I went through a phase when I didn't like my hair. Because the school I went to was primarily Caucasian, there wasn't anyone who had my hair texture. I remember one day I straightened my hair, and that was the first day that people gave me compliments on it.
I only get compared to women, which is crazy because often the women they compare me to... we just have a similar hairstyle. Whether it's Joni Mitchell or Florence and the Machine - our music doesn't always sound anything alike. But we just all have long hair.
People get real comfortable with their features. Nobody gets comfortable with their hair. Hair trauma. It's the universal thing.
I think it's so important to represent beautiful, natural, healthy Black hair on television and in media, so the young women who feel pressured to look a certain way can see they are beautiful and their hair doesn't have to look a certain way to be professional.
I've had long hair, I've had short hair, and I've had in between hair... and its all good.
My hair journey involved a lot of trying to figure out how to deal with my hair as a bi-racial girl in a white community living in Long Island, N.Y., where no one had a clue what to do with it.
Before the advent of the white man, black people were doing all kinds of things with their hair. The rejection of kinks and curls did come with the white man.
It's definitely a little bit ironic being known for my hair because, as a little girl, I had no idea what I was doing with it. I was insecure about it. I didn't have as many references to curly girls, and I wanted to just fit in with all my other friends.
No matter what your hair looks like once it's wet, it's about embracing it and loving yourself for you and all that that entails.
It's really exciting to be a voice for girls with curls.
I love seeing my mom and my daughter embrace their natural hair. I'm glad I've embraced it, too.
