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" When my hair is picked out, my whole aura is picked out, like, 'See this, see me.' "
Amanda Seales
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" My hair changes with my emotions... and my purpose for the day. "
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" Cornrows came back with a vengeance in the early '00s with every dude trying to grow his hair out to get 'braided up.' It was crazy. Girls were getting carpal tunnel in hoods across America trying to make plaits out of 1.5 inches of ungreased hair. "
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" I've played with jazz and toyed with it when I used to live near the St. Nicholas Pub in Harlem. "
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Used
Pub
" Every New Year comes with a list of predictions. Self-predictions, world predictions, how many times Lindsay Lohan will get arrested predictions, etc. I reserve the annual trend for people with genuine psychic ability and/or bloggers. "
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New
World
" My thing about creating things is that it has to do two purposes: It has to serve me creatively but also has to serve the people. "
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Two
Things
" Fashion week is not an episode of 'Girls' or 'Friends,' where I'm OK that there is not a black person in sight because I honestly believe these characters don't come into contact with - therefore don't have - any black friends. No, in the case of Fashion week, it feels wrong. "
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" Anytime I don't have to wear a bra is a good day. "
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Anytime
Wear
Good
" Contrary to far too popular a belief, style, fashion, and fabulousness are not synonymous with stank, haughty, and self-aggrandizing. "
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Style
Popular
Far
" In hip hop, 'real' has always meant one who represents in actuality what they present in imagery. For instance, once upon a time, if a rapper spoke about being gangsta, they needed to truly be that, or they were 'frontin.' "
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Time
Rapper
Real
" I am all at once in awe and in confusion at some of the folks I encounter during fashion week, consistently causing me to mutter to myself or whoever's in earshot, 'Is that really necessary?' "
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Week
Me
Awe
" Drake ain't fake. "
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Drake
Fake
" Whether you like him or not, hip hop needs Drake. "
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You
Hip
Hip Hop
" Exactly what I'm doing is what success looks like. I get to create on my own terms, on my own timeline, and I'm able to support myself and my mom and my cat comfortably. "
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Mom
Myself
Success
" I'm an artist through and through. "
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Artist
Through
" I love cars. "
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I Love
Love
" I think it's always been especially hard for black people to let go of musicians who do heinous things because music is such an integral part of our existence. "
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Musicians
Black
Music
" Jazz does what it wants to, and so does The Wu. "
Amanda Seales
Wants
Jazz
Does
" As a lover of both hip-hop and jazz, I feel like much of the latter community still doesn't truly embrace hip-hop as a musical extension. "
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Embrace
Feel
Hip-Hop
" I'm a nerd. "
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Nerd
" I don't have the proportions for 'hood hot.' "
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Hot
Hood
Proportions
" Ladies and dentists will agree: Iverson has one of the best smiles to ever grin. This is uncontested. No argument! And he was very generous with it as well. Whether during a game, press conference, or photoshoot, Iverson was free with his cheesing. "
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Argument
Game
Best
" I have a theory that when you're lost on the path, go back to the beginning and try the maze again. "
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Back
Try
You
" I am from Florida, so I didn't 'grow up' on Wu-Tang. "
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I Am
Grow Up
Florida
" My first encounter with Wu-Tang Clan came when I ordered six CDs from those throwback catalog orders, from Columbia House or something, and '36 Chambers' was one of them. It was on from then. "
Amanda Seales
First
Encounter
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