"I stared at this earnest young black man for a moment. Suddenly my hair became very political. Waves of horror washed over me. How many forms of religious persecution are we now going to visit upon one another as black people in the name of our public safety? And suppose I was a Rastafarian? What then? Why did that automatically mean I could not vacation in Virgin Gorda? Did it make my tourist dollars unusable?"
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Audre Lorde, "Is Your Hair Still Political?" in Go Girl! The Black Woman's Book of Travel & Adventure edited by Elaine Lee page 161.
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