Everything counts

From: The New Crisis | Date: July 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

She used to look at their serious faces and laugh silently to herself. They meant what they were saying. The only thing was that loving them all as sister, lover and mother, she also knew them. She knew them as intimately as the hems of her dresses. That it was so much easier for them to talk about the beauty of being oneself. Not to struggle to look like white girls. Not straightening one's hair. And above all, not to wear the wig.

The wig. Ah, the wig. They say it is made of articficial fibre. Others swear that if it is not gipsy hair, then it is Chinese. Extremists are sure they are made ...

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