Neneh Cherry (Neneh Mariann Karlsson) Quotes

When I was going to school, I just wanted to be like everybody else. I would pull at my hair to try and get it to lie straight. America was where I would consume and absorb black culture, buy Ultra Sheen and watch 'Soul Train,' but I still had that weird in-between thing.

Neneh Cherry

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• America
• Soul
• Black
• Culture
• Hair
• Weird

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• When I was going to school, I just wanted to be like everybody else. I would pull at my hair to try and get it to lie straight. America was where I would consume and absorb black culture, buy Ultra Sheen and watch 'Soul Train,' but I still had that weird in-between thing.

  

  Neneh Cherry
  • School
  • America
  • Soul