Who Is Madame Noire?
Interview by Kweli Wright
Name: Aliya S. King
Title: Author, Platinum (to be published in July 2010), aliyasking.com
Twitter handle: @aliyasking
What do you love about being a Madame Noire?
I love the specialness of being a Madame Noire with freckles. I love the kinkiness of my hair, (even when I can only feel it through my even kinkier hair weave.) I love that I can rock a TWA (teeny weeny Afro), a straightened up-do, a fluffy Afro and a full-on Beyonce style weave — all in a three month period. I love that Zora Neale Hurston
told me, (yes, me, and every other Madame Noire worldwide), not to weep at the world. The Madame Noire is too busy sharpening her oyster knife.
Is the media (news and reality shows) having a “field day” with black women? Why us and why now?
No, the media is not having a field day with black woman. We’re having a field day with ourselves.
