This is my hair.

I listened to India Arie’s ‘I am not my hair’ as inspiration for this post.
I don’t know when it happened, but that song has become the de-facto anthem for black women with natural hair.

Years ago when I chopped off all my hair and stopped using chemical relaxers;
‘They’ said I couldn’t do that, and that natural kinky hair looked inappropriate.
Over half a decade later, I’m still not sure exactly what ‘they’ meant.
There’s nothing inappropriate about my hair! I love my hair!
My hair and I are doing just fine, we’ve come a long way.
We are what we are regardless of our hair.
I am not my hair.