"When I went natural I didn't think my hair would be such a determining factor in terms of how people saw me. Oftentimes people would only associate me with my hair. They'd be like, 'the girl with the fro' or 'the girl with the curly hair.' People wouldn't even take the time to get to know really know my name; my identity was my hair.
Now I feel a little detached from my hair. It's not something that I really think is important to me. One of the things that made me so detached was that people started developing their own opinions and their own feelings towards my hair. People would say, 'I like your hair this way,' 'I like your curls this way,' or 'I don't like your hair in box braids.' My hair wasn't mine anymore — it was how other people viewed it.
My hair took up so much of my personality without me having to even speak, and I felt uncomfortable with that."
