Negrophile
It's not for any one group of us to decide what blackness gets to be.

I'm convinced now that going to the beauty shop is akin to looking through the peephole of life and getting a glimpse on what people think about thangs. At least a certain group of folks. I've talked about the conversations I've heard at my beauty shop. Some of them are pretty funny, some just kind of interesting. And some are...

How did I, a woman who wouldn't label herself as a Christian, end up in such a well...Christian-oriented beauty shop? I'm not saying that Bible study goes on while folks are sitting under the dryer, I'm just saying it's pretty evident that most of the stylists as well as most of the clients, subscribe to, at least, some of the tenets of Christianity. [...]

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