Bantu Knots Quotes

you are not black, that you know very little about my hair. You do not know about my pomades and co-wash, my Denmans and hot combs, my bantu knots and braid-outs. You don’t know why I need so many bobby pins, why I put oil over my hair, why wash day is indeed an entire day. Because my hair is not the stuff of commercials or of fashion fantasy. My hair is a mystery on my head, just beyond your reach.

The women of all shades who had come to Auntie August’s shop not for their usual presses, but for the relief of cornrows and Bantu knots and box braids. I wanted to draw Mya and the cats in the green trees. Now that school was out

Ma ku nsia n'tima, mâku; matèle, ma ku mbazi,

The headwrap is the African woman's crown. White people came and stole almost everything from us and are still refusing to return our land back to us, but we still own our culture and our traditions. I've just taken a conscious decision to celebrate my blackness. You know, sort of like what Ledi does with her bantu knots; Itu explained.

Fiela, fiela, fiela ngwanaka.

...I'm actually joining the SRC soon,' Itu said.... 'I don't know, Itu...I just feel like these SRC guys are here to cause unnecessary trouble sometimes. Some of us actually want to be in school, and clearly they don't with all these endless nonsense strikes,' Minnie said Itu sat up on her bed. 'What makes you think they don't want to study?' She shot back at Minnie. 'You do remember that I spent a night in the streets with a whole lot of other black kids who were also lining up in those NSFAS queues. Because just like me who were stranded and couldn't catch a taxi back to Limpopo. Some of those students still got rejected and those of us who were granted loans will leave this university with debts hanging over our heads before we have even entered the workforce. And yet we live in a country that talks about our rights to education for the black child. The same education that we black children of a democratic South Africa still have to bleed to get...