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" I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali. "
Iman
White
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Somali
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" I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry. "
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" Beauty is being comfortable and confident in your own skin. "
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" We never do Valentine's dinner, because everybody, they look. On Valentine's, imagine me and David going to a restaurant! Like, everybody's going to say, 'Did they talk? Did they hold hands?' Twenty years. We've been married twenty years! "
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" The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves - hence, they reinvent the world around them. "
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" I'll be truly happy when we're not counting the number of ethnically diverse models on a fashion runway or campaign, when having a representation of the entire human race is the norm and not an exception. "
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" I had never seen 'Vogue.' I didn't read fashion magazines, I read 'Time' and 'Newsweek.' "
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" I did not want to get involved with a rock star. No way. It is not a sane thing to do. "
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" I believe the universe has great plans for us. When you are young, you don't learn that. "
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" On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs. "
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" When I started modeling, they tried to pay black models less than they paid Caucasian models. I turned down those jobs because I knew what I was worth. "
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" You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise. "
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" Bowie is just a persona. He's a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met. "
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" I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple. "
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" My father... gave me a positive connection with men because he is a gentleman. "
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" Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English. "
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" My given name was Zahra, which is the 'flower of the desert.' I don't look anything like the flower of the desert. My name was changed by my grandfather to Iman, which means 'have faith.' And it meant to have faith that a daughter would come. "
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" My mother was an activist; so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960. "
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" On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession. "
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