Good Hair Page #5

I want you to tell the world,

we manufacture

our own product,

we sell our own product

to our own, through our own.

That's the reason why we will

never sell our company.

Because if I asked you

to take off the clothes

that you didn't buy

from your race,

it would be a nudist camp

in here right now.

The nudity thing

was a little weird,

but if you sniff

enough chemicals,

you just might say anything.

But I've got to admit,

looking at these

proud black women

just made me think

about my daughters.

So the next day,

I got on a plane

and went to meet the Dalai Lama

of hair himself.

Tell me, when was the first time

you had relaxer in your hair?

Late seventies.

James Brown, who was like

the father I've never had,

was in his office one evening

in Augusta, Georgia,

and he said to me

that he was real tight

with the Republicans.

And I said,

''Well, if you so tight,

''why don't you get us

Martin Luther King's birthday

''a federal holiday?''

He said, ''Get the White House

on the phone.''

I said, ''Oh, yeah, right.''

But I told his secretary,

''Get the White House on the phone.''

They left a message.

Three hours later,

to my surprise,

the White House called back.

He got on the phone

and told them he wanted

to come see President Reagan.

So they agreed to meet

on January 15th, '82.

And l'll never forget, he said,

''When you go to the White House,

I want you to look like me,

'''cause when people see you,

I want 'em to see me.

''You're a reflection of me.''

He took me to a lady

in Augusta named Mary.

He said, ''l want you to style

Rev's hair like mine.''

But that's the day we went

to the White House, right there.

When was the first time

you had a relaxer?

I was nine.

I remember the exact day.

And I was, like, ''Mama,

I want to get my hair done.

''l want a relaxer.''

And she was, like,

''What do you know about relaxers?''

And I was, like,

''l want a relaxer.''

At nine years old,

I got my first relaxer

and I remember it just being...

it was like a miracle.

I think you're trying to blend in.

I think you're trying to make

everybody comfortable.

Relaxed.

Relaxed and not, like,

''Oh, my God, what is that?''

you know?

That's what the relaxer does.

It relaxes people.

How old were you

the first time you got a relaxer?

Oh, God.

I was about seventy.

Seventy?

You went your whole life?

Not my whole life.

I'm still alive.

I relaxed my hair

when I was in the tenth grade.

And l'll tell you,

when you was really gangster,

you could show up in homeroom

with rollers in your hair.

And you had rank

by how big the rollers were.

Like, the yellow rollers

were smaller,

and they get bigger

and bigger.

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