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" I've been doing my job well for 17 years. People must see something in me. Otherwise, I'd be over and out. "

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" 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.' "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear? "

" I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school. "

" 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. "

" What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives. "

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

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" My features are completely ethnic. "

" I make a lot of money, but I don't want to talk about that. "

" Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works. "

" I don't like workouts that make you bulky. "

" When I started out modeling, there weren't casting directors and there weren't stylists, so you just dealt directly with the designer. We were all much closer back then. "

" I love mentoring young girls. I've always been like that. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "