may 2, 2011 - Trenton Hair Salon

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"Black locals she had seen were so light skinned and lank haired" (pg 03)

"She gently combed her hair dense soft and tightly coiled until it framed her like a halo"

"The last braider I went to was African too. she wanted to burn my hair"

"i want my hair braided. You can braid my hair right? She recognised in Kelsey the nationalism of liberal Americans who copiously criticised America but did not like it when you did so; they expected you to be silent and grateful and always reminded you how much better than wherever you came from America was" (pg 189)

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