Are you your hair?

What does India Arie mean when she said she was not her hair?? When this song first spanned the air waves, afros, 2 strand twists, TWA(s) and BAA(s) didn't exist. She cut her hair and was bald. BALD. Many of us were shocked to see her round, shiny head on BET along with a smiling face. People commented on how she could cut all of that "precious hair" coming down her back..her response????..She needed to be FREE. She had become what others wanted her to be and we as black women cherish our hair and everything along with it. I remember thinking that she could be that bold because she had money, fans, entourage and so forth...So it was ok for HER to free herself, but not me. That was when i realized that I was, in fact, my hair. I began to see what that meant. I was my hair, my boots, my perfume, my sorority, my friends and everything else I considered to be me. But I began to search for the real me. I began to search for who I was and I found FREEDOM..so THIS is what freedom felt like...lol, Many years from my revelaton, I have discovered that I am twhat my hair represents. ME. Being confidant enough to go natural before it was the "thing to do", gave me a new freedom I had never felt before. Freeing my hair allowed me to free my mind. It has become a stepping stone to so many more revelations in my life. In essence, I am my hair...free, unpredictable, beautiful, multi-dimensional, black, brown, golden, thick, thirsty, in need of care, a conversation starter, a trend setter and ready to break through