Actress Amandla Stenberg attended Stella McCartney’s Autumn 2016 Presentation at Amoeba Music on January 12, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. The 17-year-old actress wore a pink skirt and top from McCartney’s Spring 2016 collection and rocked a big fro for the outing.
Stenberg, who recently covered Teen Vogue magazine, says that she is tired of talking about hair.
“Yo — yes! It’s so funny. I have many white friends who come up to me and they’re like, “Amandla, so this weekend I’m going to go out, and I was wondering if it’s OK if I could wear cornrows just on Saturday?” [Laughs] I’m tired of talking about who can have whichever style. Because I’ve said my thing.”
“But I’m not tired of talking about hair in the sense of it being an empowering thing. I know when I used to chemically straighten mine, I did it because I wasn’t comfortable with my natural hair. I thought it was too poofy, too kinky. So for me, personally, when I started wearing it natural, it felt like I was blossoming because I was letting go of all the dead hair and all the parts of me that had rejected my natural state. But, you know, it’s not like that for all black girls. Some have their hair straight because that’s just how they like it, and it doesn’t mean that they accept themselves any less.”
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