3 Quotes by Terry Farish

No one in America is from America.

-Terry Farish

  • Author Terry Farish
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    Braids are from our culture,” he says, this boy who reads and knows all the American capital cities. “They are the African designs we give to the world. When you are ready, you will braid.

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Braids are from our culture,” he says, this boy who reads and knows all the American capital cities. “They are the African designs we give to the world. When you are ready, you will braid.

-Terry Farish

  • Author Terry Farish
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    How could a white girl know how only someone you trust should braid your hair, how someone bad could work magic against you? How could a white girl know what the braid means to an African man? How a braid factors into the girl’s value as a bride, her beauty and quick tongue, her education, her prospects as a mother. Her virginity. All these things add value. How can this white girl know?

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How could a white girl know how only someone you trust should braid your hair, how someone bad could work magic against you? How could a white girl know what the braid means to an African man? How a braid factors into the girl’s value as a bride, her beauty and quick tongue, her education, her prospects as a mother. Her virginity. All these things add value. How can this white girl know?

-Terry Farish

 

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