say mom
will one day have my hair
long and smooth like stephanie my daughter
you are black you have frizzy hair and
all pigs
gold to your whole life faced with the answer of
my mother I was having crises of
tears
amazing I was 7 years old I wanted
to join the dominant group
blonde classmates with smooth hair
I understood that it was she who
was the norm
how do you live your hair
frizzy and curly in a norm society
do we really allow ourselves to live
our singularities well it’s history
in my life I become aware of my
difference the day in the yard
school
I’m balancing it black you remember
maybe for some this cartoon
who presented a stupid black cow
spending his time complaining to his
doctor
hello doctors I hurt I hated it
cartoon it’s true at the time there
had so little image to me
hang up so little image
positive in the media so that
chained in my head and in the courtyard
of school all the little mockery
mockery of everyday life where I am caught
the hair without asking me my
authorization
we compare them to sheep’s wool
and all that stuff is growing in my
head and all his representations of
me negative
I make them mine they become my
truth you know what we
like a cognitive good it’s a mechanism
of thought that creates a deviation from
judgment is actually basically it’s like
these are when we appropriates in fact
a bias power be associated with it and
psychologists say it takes five
positive actions to be able to cancel
an insult a malicious act and
can go back to the balanced then he
finally five times the dose
of love or empathy to be able to
put my brain back into place
imagine how fast progress
prejudices spreads
first in a schoolyard then to
the university and then in business
is then at the scale of a society all
complete
it immediately becomes very heavy
actually the images
words build identities
the identity of an individual a fortiori
that of a child because they
nourish our niche imaginary
reference me at the time my references
but role models and well it was my
barbie dolls she looked a lot like
with long hair blonde list with
beautiful blue eyes loved
my dolls
I played hours with there was also
on the screen sissi the Empress shown
by romy schneider
so so beautiful and then the base also to
the time is good and cinderella well
sure like a lot of little girls
she made me dream
and there we were very far from afro
masterful gray parma of a coffee
brown that I discovered much later
so yes the norm can make you dream but
it can also lead us into
an area of our keeping us in
the illusion that we are all equal
all brothers and that for and that the price
forgiveness of our freedom lies in
our faculty to deny our singularities to
we differentiate then me the standard
she had hit me at the age of 7
in the schoolyard with his insults
and then the next seven years and
well I was in an area of to
total nations where finally the the good
the success
the beautiful it was this other that I
will never reach
and then at 14 years of age
on my mother my sister and I are getting
our first straightening yes I access
finally beauty is what I think
and the feeling I felt was
it was huge
in fact it was to describe a little
it was michael jackson’s cup at
the time rather a curly like that a
aspect a kind of permanence to big
loop
I was beautiful
any case until my hair does not
falls a few months later then there
I could have told myself
end of the dream we stop everything but the
social pressure the looks and pile the
to have touched this finger
extreme beauty
Well it was necessary that I return
so I let my hair grow
some time and then managed to relax and
then relapse of hair is managed
straighten again but this time I
still reminds me of the sensation of
burn on my scalp
because the hairdresser had left
ask the product 45 minutes instead of
20 yeah yes because your hair
miss it is so kinky if
you want results you have to
wait for their results
actually my scalp and burned
and I pick up my hair all over
my hands I’m 15 years old I’m going
the skull I find myself short and kinky
very far from what beauty represents
to me at this time
so finally that day I had to
to be aware I had to knock
this mask this month of facade and accept
that my hair would always be in
direction of the sun and that he had without
doubt something to tell me
so I asked myself I looked for
discovered my story
I actually discovered that my
ancestors were not the Gauls like
what I had learned at school
a year it was very African with
a very rich story that was starting
long before slavery with queens
kings of the kingdoms
I read a lot so I read Sheikh
anta diop
I like him loved Césaire Frantz Evil Fanon
comex martin luther king and so
others I was building my truth
I finally embodied my identity
so well what
I gave at the time since
now that my natural kinky hair
was declared to the world
I realized that he
upset but you got the hair ba
yes in fact I’m wearing it’s like
that pushes my hair into the
hair interpellates he always made to
across from ancient egypt in
going through China the United States or
France is good the hair has always
a political message in China by
example the principle of arta gautama has
cut his hair to pass into the world
spiritual and become Buddha in the
20s the boyish cut was
obligatory for women because
they expressed their social rebellion
and then more recently crystal
christiane taubira forgiveness in france or
solange knowles the hospital longo to
united states and well carry it their
kinky and curly hair like
the expression of their freedom then in
2001 with the desire to break the codes
of beauty and show the alternatives
I founded with my sister an event
you that the ebony that is the first
platform in France keith who celebrated
curly and frizzy curly hair at
natural at the start we were 70 then
200 and 6 gone later we were ten
mile the market
time did not take us into account
yet with the work of the
sociologist gilles esmeralda and the
first event event loop of
dumpsters in 2005 we drove a
self-consciousness
the movement a movement back to
natural
and then finally this movement became
amplified the become global international
it is commonly called the movement
nappy has become today a
true ecosystem all by itself
all alone with children these
influencers of other events have
then created products of the brands of
Besides the products Oréal in 2014
bought the most beautiful sign of the
natural tendency in the united states
gold coach weighing at the time 27
millions of dollars
it is to tell you things well
advance yet yet there I am
mayor today I’m a mom and
I wonder about how the
Republic breathes fraternity to its
children when I still read in a
French hairdressing manual that the
frizzy hair is a condition
congenital or hereditary and that
is classified in the chapter of
abnormalities
I’m wondering when
today still the so-called hairdressers
traditional learn on one
hair type the very one who told me
dream for years the hair
smooth listening and caucasian so I
created
more recently this time a salon of
hairstyle buckle studio dump that
sublimate all the hair and
especially crimp natural
we teach professionals of the
hairstyle is also transmitted in
parents and children
secrets of this hair to create a
little more equality and finally and I
register in a movement that is
much more global with dice of
projects in the united states like that of
afro art that stages children
with frizzy and curly hair for
value them
then things are moving forward but
for a moment
last week I thought that everything
that I had put in place had only served to
nothing when my daughter told me you know
mom
I would really like to be white with
blue eyes and smooth hair
so here I took a big
inspiration and I’m going to ask why
because it’s beautiful mom how
compete with everything she lives in
school without me yet I know that the
seed that I sowed and that I water
every day with a lot of love and
of self-esteem will eventually grow and a
day she will tell the world she will cry to
world her freedom she will shout she will say
what it is without makeup without
theatricality and if ultimately for
change the world and create more
harmony was within everyone’s reach
if it was
ample of taught that
differences are riches and that
they create something
of bigger I act every day in
what meaning and how are you going to create you
more humanity and allow your
neighbors your colleagues your friends to live
their singularity
try the courage to be tried
just love I’m on my head
tacit
thank you for listening to me
[Applause]
will one day have my hair
long and smooth like stephanie my daughter
you are black you have frizzy hair and
all pigs
gold to your whole life faced with the answer of
my mother I was having crises of
tears
amazing I was 7 years old I wanted
to join the dominant group
blonde classmates with smooth hair
I understood that it was she who
was the norm
how do you live your hair
frizzy and curly in a norm society
do we really allow ourselves to live
our singularities well it’s history
in my life I become aware of my
difference the day in the yard
school
I’m balancing it black you remember
maybe for some this cartoon
who presented a stupid black cow
spending his time complaining to his
doctor
hello doctors I hurt I hated it
cartoon it’s true at the time there
had so little image to me
hang up so little image
positive in the media so that
chained in my head and in the courtyard
of school all the little mockery
mockery of everyday life where I am caught
the hair without asking me my
authorization
we compare them to sheep’s wool
and all that stuff is growing in my
head and all his representations of
me negative
I make them mine they become my
truth you know what we
like a cognitive good it’s a mechanism
of thought that creates a deviation from
judgment is actually basically it’s like
these are when we appropriates in fact
a bias power be associated with it and
psychologists say it takes five
positive actions to be able to cancel
an insult a malicious act and
can go back to the balanced then he
finally five times the dose
of love or empathy to be able to
put my brain back into place
imagine how fast progress
prejudices spreads
first in a schoolyard then to
the university and then in business
is then at the scale of a society all
complete
it immediately becomes very heavy
actually the images
words build identities
the identity of an individual a fortiori
that of a child because they
nourish our niche imaginary
reference me at the time my references
but role models and well it was my
barbie dolls she looked a lot like
with long hair blonde list with
beautiful blue eyes loved
my dolls
I played hours with there was also
on the screen sissi the Empress shown
by romy schneider
so so beautiful and then the base also to
the time is good and cinderella well
sure like a lot of little girls
she made me dream
and there we were very far from afro
masterful gray parma of a coffee
brown that I discovered much later
so yes the norm can make you dream but
it can also lead us into
an area of our keeping us in
the illusion that we are all equal
all brothers and that for and that the price
forgiveness of our freedom lies in
our faculty to deny our singularities to
we differentiate then me the standard
she had hit me at the age of 7
in the schoolyard with his insults
and then the next seven years and
well I was in an area of to
total nations where finally the the good
the success
the beautiful it was this other that I
will never reach
and then at 14 years of age
on my mother my sister and I are getting
our first straightening yes I access
finally beauty is what I think
and the feeling I felt was
it was huge
in fact it was to describe a little
it was michael jackson’s cup at
the time rather a curly like that a
aspect a kind of permanence to big
loop
I was beautiful
any case until my hair does not
falls a few months later then there
I could have told myself
end of the dream we stop everything but the
social pressure the looks and pile the
to have touched this finger
extreme beauty
Well it was necessary that I return
so I let my hair grow
some time and then managed to relax and
then relapse of hair is managed
straighten again but this time I
still reminds me of the sensation of
burn on my scalp
because the hairdresser had left
ask the product 45 minutes instead of
20 yeah yes because your hair
miss it is so kinky if
you want results you have to
wait for their results
actually my scalp and burned
and I pick up my hair all over
my hands I’m 15 years old I’m going
the skull I find myself short and kinky
very far from what beauty represents
to me at this time
so finally that day I had to
to be aware I had to knock
this mask this month of facade and accept
that my hair would always be in
direction of the sun and that he had without
doubt something to tell me
so I asked myself I looked for
discovered my story
I actually discovered that my
ancestors were not the Gauls like
what I had learned at school
a year it was very African with
a very rich story that was starting
long before slavery with queens
kings of the kingdoms
I read a lot so I read Sheikh
anta diop
I like him loved Césaire Frantz Evil Fanon
comex martin luther king and so
others I was building my truth
I finally embodied my identity
so well what
I gave at the time since
now that my natural kinky hair
was declared to the world
I realized that he
upset but you got the hair ba
yes in fact I’m wearing it’s like
that pushes my hair into the
hair interpellates he always made to
across from ancient egypt in
going through China the United States or
France is good the hair has always
a political message in China by
example the principle of arta gautama has
cut his hair to pass into the world
spiritual and become Buddha in the
20s the boyish cut was
obligatory for women because
they expressed their social rebellion
and then more recently crystal
christiane taubira forgiveness in france or
solange knowles the hospital longo to
united states and well carry it their
kinky and curly hair like
the expression of their freedom then in
2001 with the desire to break the codes
of beauty and show the alternatives
I founded with my sister an event
you that the ebony that is the first
platform in France keith who celebrated
curly and frizzy curly hair at
natural at the start we were 70 then
200 and 6 gone later we were ten
mile the market
time did not take us into account
yet with the work of the
sociologist gilles esmeralda and the
first event event loop of
dumpsters in 2005 we drove a
self-consciousness
the movement a movement back to
natural
and then finally this movement became
amplified the become global international
it is commonly called the movement
nappy has become today a
true ecosystem all by itself
all alone with children these
influencers of other events have
then created products of the brands of
Besides the products Oréal in 2014
bought the most beautiful sign of the
natural tendency in the united states
gold coach weighing at the time 27
millions of dollars
it is to tell you things well
advance yet yet there I am
mayor today I’m a mom and
I wonder about how the
Republic breathes fraternity to its
children when I still read in a
French hairdressing manual that the
frizzy hair is a condition
congenital or hereditary and that
is classified in the chapter of
abnormalities
I’m wondering when
today still the so-called hairdressers
traditional learn on one
hair type the very one who told me
dream for years the hair
smooth listening and caucasian so I
created
more recently this time a salon of
hairstyle buckle studio dump that
sublimate all the hair and
especially crimp natural
we teach professionals of the
hairstyle is also transmitted in
parents and children
secrets of this hair to create a
little more equality and finally and I
register in a movement that is
much more global with dice of
projects in the united states like that of
afro art that stages children
with frizzy and curly hair for
value them
then things are moving forward but
for a moment
last week I thought that everything
that I had put in place had only served to
nothing when my daughter told me you know
mom
I would really like to be white with
blue eyes and smooth hair
so here I took a big
inspiration and I’m going to ask why
because it’s beautiful mom how
compete with everything she lives in
school without me yet I know that the
seed that I sowed and that I water
every day with a lot of love and
of self-esteem will eventually grow and a
day she will tell the world she will cry to
world her freedom she will shout she will say
what it is without makeup without
theatricality and if ultimately for
change the world and create more
harmony was within everyone’s reach
if it was
ample of taught that
differences are riches and that
they create something
of bigger I act every day in
what meaning and how are you going to create you
more humanity and allow your
neighbors your colleagues your friends to live
their singularity
try the courage to be tried
just love I’m on my head
tacit
thank you for listening to me
[Applause]
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