• I am a bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to black women's hair. Hair is hair - yet also about larger questions: self-acceptance, insecurity and what the world tells you is beautiful. For many black women, the idea of wearing their hair naturally is unbearable.

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: I am a bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to black women's hair. Hair is hair - yet also about larger questions: self-acceptance, insecurity and what the world tells you is beautiful. For many black women, the idea of wearing their hair naturally is unbearable.
    "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: 'My new novel is about love, race... and hair'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2013.