But braids to me represented more than practicality. Braids were super important because I just felt that they represented an African beauty, specifically, these braids that you see in these pictures.They're called Fulani braids from a tribe in Nigeria.
So we'll start off with clothing. braids . It was a great video, which I like.
So from a practicality standpoint, it made sense. But braids to me represented more than practicality. Braids were super important because I just felt that they represented an African beauty, specifically, these braids that you see in these pictures.
were in fashion at the day. So long braids , you wanted to have braids that could twirl around your head. You wanted to be able to have enough abundance in this up-do to put in, say, a crescent pin or a very special jeweled ornament that
OK, but a lot of people criticize mathematics for being too out of touch with reality. Something like braids or whatever, right? How-- it's so abstract, it's not useful.
Two, the importance of language. You do braids , right?
I'd watch my mom go to court-- and you can see her in the bottom left of your screen here-- and she'd have on a suit but also pow-wow braids and Indian Health Service coke bottle eyeglasses. And she'd be the only woman in court and the only Native in court.
And I integrate these kinds of explanations within the context of the book because, as we started out early on, when you see entropy and you see evolution as these entwined braids that take us from the Big Bang through the formation of stars and planets to the emergence of life, to the emergence of consciousness, do these principles continue to guide what happens as we go forward when you've got self-aware beings now part of the equation?
Braids were super important because I just felt that they represented an African beauty, specifically, these braids that you see in these pictures.They're called Fulani braids from a tribe in Nigeria. And you've seen them.
Well, she did back in the day anyways. Where you have two braids coming down in front and usually there's beads and things.
it's very difficult to say if she was a lesbian or not. And she has amazing braids and a turban and she's clearly a woman at the top of her game in that.
I also have an eye patch that is my human interpretation of the one-eye Plankton. And two little braids . And two little Steven Seagal samurai braids that are representing my antenna.
I saw-- I don't remember if it's the Nets, but a lot of your teammates and you were playing "Clash of Clans." I'll do braids . I had braids .
And so as my diaspora folks know, at some point the braids have to come out. So I took the braids out. And I didn't know what to do with my hair.
And so here are the figures posed. Various kinds of braids and as that sort of thing were added and removed.
Get rid of their language. Cut off their braids . Put them in little white people's clothes.
Right on DSO That's when you have, you know, native students at graduations who are told they can't wear an eagle feather, which is a sign of high honor, right? Or black students who can't wear braids to school that you start now, All of a sudden, we're seeing all these changes happening rapidly, or even where the, you see right just appointed their first black president of the entire U C system. Right? Um, and I was interviewed, actually by local San Diego Press, and I was impressed with the
And that was a head-to-toe curation. So it started with my braids . And this was something super important to me.
And two little braids . And two little Steven Seagal samurai braids that are representing my antenna. It's funny, none of you guys-- I guess Jae'Lin, a little bit you talked about it.
I saw-- I don't remember if it's the Nets, but a lot of your teammates and you were playing "Clash of Clans." And people started texting me braids , and box braids , and-- what else do I have?
So I was just doing all of these really interesting things. And I went to India with braids similar to this. And so as my diaspora folks know, at some point the braids have to come out.
women are the most desired oh that still strikes me as a funny line chiso doesn't answer he points to her rasta style braids her dreadlocks what have you done to your hair can't you straighten it the way you used to her sisters shift nervously he pauses looking at her demanding an answer I'm living in
And this was something super important to me. First of all, braids are very convenient and practical, especially when you have to wear a helmet. You saw it in that video.
then his drawings of flows of water look very much like braids of hair.
him take the grass roll it up parade it roll three braids and no long into a
OK? And that-- I should have one with braids and everything.
You sit there and it's like, "Braids , scarves, jewelry, serapes?" They are making a marginal living at best doing this.
which means under no circumstances could I ever wear more than three braids in my hair at any given time and I couldn't
We're still seeing cases come to the fore. Students in Texas, young male students who are being sent home for wearing locks or braids or cornrows in a way that-- I mean, the racism that's rampant in the way that hair presentation is received,
feel like an imposter, which was very difficult because I looked very different than anybody that was in the sport. And there I was with my beads, with my braids , with my Davido blasting in my Beats headphones. And I was just kind of somebody that was trying to just figure it out.
I saw-- I don't remember if it's the Nets, but a lot of your teammates and you were playing "Clash of Clans." So, hairstyles-- YouTube. We got the braids .
The fact that a magazine would put out a story saying that she created this trend called boxer braids , which basically is the way my mother used to braid
And I went to India with braids similar to this. And so as my diaspora folks know, at some point the braids have to come out. So I took the braids out.
And so under my name, there were some very typical feminine things like Braids , because I would braid my hair.
And he rode away, and he looked back and forth, and it said that the pigtails or the braids that were hanging down were whipping back and forth
Well, she did back in the day anyways. to be a beautiful, intelligent, strong, black, African woman, that the braids were an important crown to that.
So we'll start off with clothing. Half an hour later, I have that same sense, so I-- I turn this way and there's a grizzly bear charging at me across these gravel braids where there's a creek.
Um, but, unfortunately, I mean, fortunately, for me my mom put braids in my hair and she put me in the pool and made me get swim lessons.
The children run in from the living room again, playing chase: a blond, no more than five; another, younger and with brown braids , topless and in makeshift diapers, less than three;