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" I don't think it's good to focus on being celebrated but to celebrate yourself. "
Winnie Harlow
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" For me personally, I have vitiligo, so my whole career, it's always been this very odd debate: 'Does she want to be white? Is she white and black? Is her mum white?' It's always been this question of my background, my race, and what I stand for. "
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" I have my flaws, but I embrace them and I love them because they're mine. "
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" Chantelle Winnie is my birth name. Chantelle Winnie Harlow, I call her my Sasha Fierce. "
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" 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!' "
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" I feel like I pull inspiration from everyone, and I feel like I'm honored and grateful that people feel that they can pull inspiration from me, be inspired by me. But I definitely don't think I'm a role model. I'm not someone to be imitated. "
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" Regardless of what race, what color, what sex, what nationality, what sexual orientation - regardless of who you are, equality should always rule! Whatever is right for you is right. Period. "
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" It's amazing what a little encouragement can do. "
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" Kids called me a cow and mooed at me. "
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" I am not my skin. I am a model with a skin condition. "
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" Focus on your opinion of yourself and not the opinion others have of you. "
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" 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. "
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" I feel like I am an inspiration. That's the word I prefer. I don't believe that I have to be a role model, someone to be emulated. "
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" The only person that can make you feel that you aren't beautiful is you. "
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" I've always been a lot about beauty and products, and skincare and make-up. "
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" My skin's not a normal sight. When a photographer says, 'I don't know what it is, but that's just not it...' I know. They like the different colours of my skin. They're not getting them with a particular outfit. "
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" I've been doing my own makeup since I was 15. I would steal my mom's products, go online, watch YouTube videos of girls doing their makeup, and try. "
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" I'm not a vitiligo spokesperson just because I have vitiligo. "
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" 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. "
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" My sense of fashion has developed a lot. "
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" It's weird to me for people to stare at me, because I feel like I'm normal. I don't see what there is to stare about. "
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" Things were fine in elementary school, but when I moved schools in grade three, not only was I the new kid, I was the new kid with the skin condition. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I learned to love who I am despite what anyone would say about or to me. This gave me the courage to really stand up to anyone or any obstacle in my life. "
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" I am literally just a human. I have the same brain as you; there's a skeleton under my skin just like yours. "
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