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" I arrive in New York on October 15, 1975. On my own, by the way. "
Iman
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" Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty. But she is so interesting-looking - so bright. That will always take you farther. "
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" People called me 'Iman the black model'. In my country, we're all black, so nobody called somebody else black. It was foreign to my ears. "
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" I wanted a bronzer so I could look like I just came from Ibiza everyday. "
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" I tell all my younger friends, 'Don't be afraid of change. That is when you truly see what your destiny is.' "
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" I didn't start exercising until the end of my modeling career. When you're young, you eat and drink what you want and stay up all night and still look good. "
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" I was under 18, and to leave Kenya to come to the United States, to get a passport, you had to be 18. So I lied and said I was 19 to get the passport, because otherwise, I had to have permission from my parents, and my parents would never have let me come. "
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" When everyone is telling you, 'You're so beautiful, there's nobody like you,' you begin to think it's true. But of course there is nobody like you. "
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" I was not considered beautiful at all. Really. And this is what all models say. But I'm still not considered that beautiful in my country. I don't know the beauty ideal where I come from - but it's not me. "
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" I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali. "
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" There is a lot of noise out there. I don't want to follow the trend - I want to create the trend. "
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" Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English. "
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" When I was in high school,we were, like, 4,000 or 5,000 students, and 50 girls - and I didn't have a date for my prom. My father paid my cousin to take me. "
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