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" I definitely hope and I feel that I am inspiring, but I don't like the word 'role model.' "

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" I feel like people put too much on the title of a role model. "

" I think we need to take a step back and realize what the real issues are - it's not being from different places or being different. "

" If God wanted be to be black, I'd be black; if he wanted me to be white, I'd be white, so I guess He chose for me to be both and original. That's the way I'm supposed to be. "

" I love to play with make-up. I adapt my beauty look to my outfit, so as soon as I know what I'm wearing, I know if I want to go for a red lip or a smoky eye. I usually won't put those two together, but it all depends on what outfit I'm going for. "

" Funnily enough, of course I've always thought B was amazing, but I've never been, like, 'Beyhive status'... until actually meeting her. I would honestly drop anything I'm doing to work for her again. Not just because of who she is but because of my experience with her filming for two days. "

" I don't want to be put in a category. "

" Kids called me a cow and mooed at me. "

" My mom will sometimes call me Winnie. It's so annoying. I'm like, 'Who are you talking to?' "

" I give kudos to people like Zendaya who are like, 'Yes, I want to inspire young kids.' And I'm like, 'Girl, that's a lot of work!' "

" When I got older, it got harder because when kids get older, they get meaner, so I went through a lot of bullying and people calling me, like, 'zebra' or 'cow,' so it was really hard growing up. "

" Focus on your opinion of yourself and not the opinion others have of you. "

" I am happy with my skin, and I'm proud of my skin, which is why I wear it so boldly. But if a job wanted me to, say, try a smoky eye and cover the vitiligo around my eye, I wouldn't have a problem with that. "

" I remember sitting by my window, wishing upon the stars that my skin condition would go away. I wondered, 'Why me?' "

" My skin's not a normal sight. "

" I had to relearn how to love myself by forgetting the opinions of everyone else and focusing on my opinion of myself. "

" I discovered that I was 'different' in the third grade. As the new kid at school, I was trying hard to find my footing. I thought I had made friends with a couple of girls - until they stopped talking to me. When I confronted them, they said their mothers had warned them to stay away because they might catch my skin condition. "

" The more people see, the more they want to see. "

" Vitiligo is just another difference, like freckles, big hair, tiny ears Everyone has differences. "

" Even as a little girl, my mom never wanted me to watch BET, but when I was at my grandparents' house, and my older cousins were there and I could watch it, I was infatuated with the idea that I could one day be a DJ or the host of a show. "

" A journalist in Toronto named Shannon Boodram saw my Facebook page and told me I was 'strikingly beautiful.' She shot a YouTube video of me, and it made a hit, grabbing thousands of views. She said the camera loved me and that I should be a model. I had never thought about modeling - it just hadn't seemed possible. "

" The only person that can make you feel that you aren't beautiful is you. "

" I've never been a die-hard Beyonce fan. I always thought she was inspirational and beautiful. "

" My modelling career is about hard work. "

" I feel like I have so many amazing opportunities because of my immigrant mother, my immigrant grandparents. "

" Growing up in the greater Toronto area, I was a happy kid. I was my mother's first child, surrounded by admiring godparents and cousins. "

" I don't do much cooking because it's impossible when you travel so much. You go grocery shopping, buy everything, and then get a call to fly out for two weeks. By the time you're back, all the food is rotten. "

" I faced challenges as a kid, but who hasn't? A lot of people have experienced far worse. I was bullied, sure, and it was painful at the time. I even quit high school to get away from it. But I've never been the kind of person to let my past predict my future. "

" My parents separated before I was born, but they remained friends, so I was close to both sides of my family, with siblings and cousins and godparents. I've had the same best friend since grade six. "

" People have black skin, people have brown skin. I have both. "