India Arie wrote these lyrics. “Little girl with the press and curl, age eight, I got a jheri curl,thirteen, and I got a relaxer, I was a source of so much laughter. At fifteen when it all broke off,eighteen and went all natural. February 2002, I went on and did what I had to do. Because it was time to change my life, to become the woman that I am inside. Ninety-seven dreadlocks all gone, I looked in the mirror for the first time and saw that, I am not my hair.” Let us stop these lyrics right now because for me this is so far from the truth. Child please, who wanted to walk around without any hair? Not me.

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