My mother had bouffant hair and poodle skirts, my dad rocked dashikis and handlebar sideburns. ❋ Danielle Moss Lee (2011)
The archetypal gay wedding portrait -- a pair of middle-aged women or paunchy men looking uncomfortable in rented outfits worn at the wrong time of day -- is destined to be hung in the same gallery of dated images of social progress alongside snapshots of flappers defiantly puffing cigarettes and Kodachromes of African Americans wearing dashikis. ❋ Unknown (2009)
But from the end of June through the middle of July you can spot people in everything from urban hipster flannels and porkpie hats to dashikis as they make their way from their residence, high on a hill overlooking the Hudson Valley, to a long, red former dairy barn across the road that has been converted into artists 'studios. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Because I first heard it as a groovy sixties-era flower-child anthem from the musical Godspell, the tune inevitably begins to play in my head along with images of long-haired Jesus freaks with tie-dyed dashikis and dazed smiles. ❋ Kate Braestrup (2010)
They travel the world with their parent's money, of course so they can get Guatemalan sweat pants or African dashikis. ❋ Mike Gellman (2010)
She stalks about the dining room in cut-off, blue-jean shorts and gauzy dashikis. ❋ Unknown (2010)
My mother said that my grandmother made dashikis and cooked fufu an African dish then served it in communal bowls while they sat in a circle on the floor. ❋ Jack Canfield (2009)
Rush, Saadiq, Virgil, Benny, and Kahlil surfaced in the light in dashikis and white linen. ❋ Andrew Oye (2009)
He drew inspiration from his wall collage of picket signs, protest message buttons, and old black-and-white pictures of platform-heeled sisters and soul brothers in zoot suits, beads, and tie-dyed dashikis. ❋ Andrew Oye (2009)
At moments of suburban relaxation, in our circle of semi-bohemian homes, we smoked pot, wore dashikis and love beads, and frugged ourselves into a lather while the Beatles and Janis Joplin sang away on the hi-fi set. ❋ John Updike (2009)
I'm thanking Mr. Smith, my blind flute teacher who wore dashikis and navigated New York's subways with his white cane, in order to teach me and other 9-year-olds songs ranging from The Lion Sleeps Tonight to Finlandia. ❋ Unknown (2009)
What poor people need is education and skills, not blather about reparations or dashikis and CIA AIDS non-sense. ❋ Unknown (2009)
By comparison, Biden I am sure, cannot help but remember America's introduction to both, when Rev. Jackson was giving "Black Power" speeches a few years after Martin Luther King's assassination, wearing dashikis, gold chains, and an Afro, and Rev. Sharpton was stomping through 1980s Brooklyn with a perm and an ill-fitted jogging suit. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Yo I bAnged Dat Ho [Dashiki], Dat Ho From [24th]?....Yeah Thats [Da Bitch] ❋ PudgeMasterFlex Fool, Betta Reconize (2004)
1) [Stewart] was wearing his dashiki today to celebrate [Kwanza].
2) Look at that dashiki over there...hey, didn't you [get with] her?!? ❋ Josh (2004)
[c'mon man]! [dashiki]! or dashiki, dashiki, dashiki! ❋ Charlie Hustle (2005)
[Look at this] 'el dashiki' [my grandma] made [for me]! ❋ I'mDatNigga (2009)
[Whoa] [wassup] [dashiki] ❋ Ktg1 (2018)