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Johnnetta Betsch Cole: [W]hen we were...

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[W]hen we were little girls sitting between those knees that served like locks, when they came with that brush or comb, you got ready because they would inevitably get to the kitchen, the nape of the neck . . .

Source: In The Black Woman's Gumbo Ya-Ya, by Terri L. Jewell, 1993.
-- Johnnetta Betsch Cole, (Oct 19 1936-____), US educator, anthropologist, college president; She was the first black female president of Spelman College, 1987-.


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