Sentences with dashiki
da·shi·ki
D d - Aretha put her hair into an Afro, wore dashikis and got involved in the growing women's movement.
- But she was never to wear the Asase Ya costume, with its brilliantly patterned dashiki and the tall, coiled wig of black yarn.
- A student may wear a dashiki to class, but he wears a cap and gown to graduation.
- Over the stone fireplace, a large oil painting of Madhubuti, back when he was Don L. Lee sporting a thick Afro and dashiki, recalls the righteous exhortations of his first books of poetry, Think Black and Black Pride.
- I was invited to speak on college campuses and I saw the disappointment in the eyes of black students when I got off the plane and I did not have a ten-foot-high Afro and was not wearing a dashiki made by Jomo Kenyatta's grandmama.
- For instance, each celebration involves colorful garb - from tasseled dashikis floating down South Street during Odunde to the embroidered silk robes worn on Chinese New Year.
- The Black Power Movement of the 1960's and 1970's saw my mother, her sisters and many of their peers cutting off their relaxed hair into Afros, dressing in dashikis and encouraging others to do the same.
- Banyard wore a long, flowing, yellow and black African dashiki, hoping it would signal how much he'd changed.
- Tommy Jacquette, who wore a flowing yellow dashiki to the memorial service at Will Rogers Memorial Park, has been working on the event since its inception.