Get braids all the way down to my butt and afro-puffs. So I had to confront all that and let it go and realize it’s just hair and as long as I’m OK I can do anything I want to do. So when I think of hair and my hair being healthy, I think of my body being healthy and my well-being. I had my hair burned off of my head with relaxers – I had scabs on my scalp. It goes all the way back to my childhood. “Like I’d want braids and I’d be afraid to get something as simple as braids and I had to dig deep and figure out where all this fear was coming from. “Writing that song began with me cutting my hair off and deciding to do other things and confronting fear,” she reveals. But on her stunning new single, “I Am Not My Hair,” the Grammy-winning singer/songwriter points out that there’s a profound distinction between one’s inner self and what’s atop – or not atop – one’s head. Like hair, India.Arie keeps growing and growing.
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