November 2011
3 posts
I mean really, why didn’t naturals tell me all the fun they were having with their natural hair while I was killing my hair softly with the perm? If I would have known that I had so many different options with my natural hair other than a Flawda Evans fro or locs then I would have went natural a long time ago! And this is not a diss to either of these two styles. But back then, over 5...
amazing grace
Today I learned:
The words to the hymn “Amazing Grace” were written by a man named John Newton. The person who came up with the tune to the hymn however, is always listed as unknown, even in the Library of Congress. John Newton was a slave-ship captain. The tune of “Amazing Grace” sounds very similar to a West African mourning chant and is assumed to be African because it...
I love how our natural hair grows straight up towards the creator and not down to the ground.
It’s like a crown.
