Jami Floyd famous quotes

When I have my Afro and walk down the street, there's no doubt that I'm black. With this [straightened] hair, if I talk about being black on air, viewers write and say, "You're black?!" I feel [straightening your hair] is giving up a sense of your identity. Let's be honest: It's an effort to look Anglo-Saxon.
-- Jami Floyd

#Giving Up #Writing #Hair

My mother's white, and she didn't know how to do my hair, so I had something that I always call white-mama hair.
-- Jami Floyd

#Mother #Hair #White

My parents pressed upon me that "In this world, you are a black woman," so I was political about my hair and would not straighten it.
-- Jami Floyd

#Hair #Parent #Political

There came a point when I wanted to do television, and I didn't think the Afro was going to play, so I made a very difficult choice - to straighten my hair.
-- Jami Floyd

#Thinking #Play #Difficult Choices

I think television is one of the last real bastions of the white beauty standard, but still in many industries the workers can be replaced by someone who's willing to play the game or who looks like the person in charge. And this is a problem for all women, not just women of color.
-- Jami Floyd

#Real #Thinking #Color

Often hair is the way we are differentiated in this culture. To me the decision to straighten your hair is deeply political.
-- Jami Floyd

#Hair #Decision #Political

For black women our sense of ourselves is not always consistent with the way other people see us.
-- Jami Floyd

#People #Black #Way

I've done lots of pieces on self-esteem and hair. There's a desire to conform, but if the encouragement to be yourself is there from loved ones, you'll find that later, that true self will come out.
-- Jami Floyd

#Being Yourself #Encouragement #Self Esteem

Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.

Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.

There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators, seers, sages, saints, shakers, and movers...even if they are uncommon and do not come by the dozen. And yet these very same people can at times be boring, irritating, petulant, selfish, angry, or depressed. To avoid disillusionment with human nature, we must first give up our illusions about it.

Should I give up or should I just keep chasing pavement, even if it leads nowhere?

To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.

Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.

Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband.

All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.