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" I didn't like my hair and makeup one time on a photo shoot, and my publicist told me, 'You should just be happy with it - they haven't had a black girl on the cover since forever.' She's no longer my publicist. "

Zendaya

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" To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted. "

" I haven't always been confident enough to rock different styles because I used to be really shy. "

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" I've had a lot of voices tell me what I should be making. Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn't allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me. "

" I feel that if you shelter your kids from everything, one day they are going to be out in the world on their own, and they are going to have to figure it out. You can't give them a test if you never taught them anything that's on the test. They're going to fail. "

" Sticking with your vision and what you believe in is so, so important. "

" I realized that if I don't like something, I can change it. If I don't feel comfortable with something, then I have a voice to say it's not cool. "

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" I shampoo every other day and only do the roots. I can't shampoo all the way down to the end, because it will dry my hair out. I use a mask multiple times a week to restore moisture. "

" There's no such thing as trends. There's no such thing as style, even. It's just whatever you feel. "

" I love playing with makeup. Makeup has become a thing where it's an art form. It's not a thing where you use it because you need to feel beautiful or because you don't like the way you look. "

" As an artist, you have to work really, really hard because you gotta make something that will allow people to even take the chance to even listen to it, you know? "

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" Fashion is a great thing, it's a way to express who you are. "

" I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.' "