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" I don't work out as much as I should, but I do believe that it's a healthy mind as well as a healthy body that keeps me fit, sound and calm. "

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" I'm not angry. And I don't like the thing of the 'angry black woman,' either. "

" I live my life day by day, and that's how I continue to live it. "

" Well, when I started modeling in the mid-'80s, the girls who did shows did shows, and the girls who did magazines did magazines. That's what was understood. "

" Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort. "

" Well, in brief, I was discovered by a lady called Beth Boldt. She had also been a model. She used to take pictures of the girls she found, and she took a picture of me one day in my school uniform, and it all kind of started from there. "

" I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind. "

" I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me. "

" I have no regrets. I've got my health. "

" Feeling passionate about something doesn't mean you have to be angry. "

" I love England, especially the food. There's nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta. "

" The chocolate and crisps come in at times. You have to allow the little things that make you happy. I'm not extreme about what I eat. "

" The worst was when my skirt fell down to my ankles, but I had on thick tights underneath. "

" I loved watching so many of the great designers I've worked with do what they do. That's why I'm still loyal to the designers that I've known since I was 16. "

" I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out. "

" I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, 'I let go and I'm going to let the cards fall where they fall... For a control freak, it's hard. "

" I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it. "

" Patrick Demarchelier was the one who got me my first 'Vogue' cover. It was French 'Vogue' - I think in '87 or '88. I think I was the first black model to be on the cover of French Vogue, which was shocking to me because when I asked them about it, they were like, 'Oh, no. We've never had that before.' "

" Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness. "

" It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable. "

" I started this charity, Fashion for Relief, in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina happened. New Orleans was actually the first place I visited in the United States. It was one of my first big jobs, a shoot for British 'Elle.' It was April 14, 1986. "

" There is only going to be one Kate Moss. Kate is an icon. "

" I feel very responsible for young models of colour. They come to me and tell me they're not getting jobs, and I do what I can to speak up for them. "

" Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion. "

" I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty. "

" I've been offered jobs by companies that supported apartheid many times in the 25 years of my modeling career, but I have never taken one of them. I have to refuse that money, because I'm not going to work against my people. They've suffered enough. "

" After Versace was murdered, the first person to call me was Mandela. "

" I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.' "

" Yes, I did and a lot of my friends who are in the same program as I were very much supportive, and the most important thing they said to me is do not let this interfere with what you have to do in taking car of yourself. That was the most important thing. "

" In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer. "

" What I like about gyrotonics is you feel like you really elongated yourself for the day... As we all get older, everything changes and moves, and there's natural ways to exercise. I think it's important, and I think it's something that can help keep things in place. "