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" My looks have changed. I have laugh lines - not wrinkles. "

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" I'm a very political person, and I think things through clearly, even when I was 18 years old. "

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" Nobody has ever said to me that I was pretty, 'til I met Peter Beard. "

" There are some people who have helped to advance me and other girls, but the fashion industry is always behind popular culture. They think they understand the zeitgeist. They don't know anything about the zeitgeist. "

" My ritual is cooking. I find it therapeutic. It comes naturally to me. I can read a recipe and won't have to look at it again. "

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" Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien. "

" Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty. But she is so interesting-looking - so bright. That will always take you farther. "

" When my daughter Zulekha was born, I was at the pinnacle of my working life as a model, and I pulled myself in two trying to cope with being both a mother and a career girl. "

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" I'm always criticised by other Somalis and Muslims for what I'm doing as a model and married to a white man and all that. "

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" I was admittedly comfortable with Iman Cosmetics being identified as a beauty brand that filled the gap for black women because it was deeply personal for me. "

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Life Is Too Short

" One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed. "

" We are very private, so we decided from early on that we will keep the press and editors and everybody out of our house. "

" I thought at 46 years old, I've been removed from the fashion industry for 10 years. I couldn't possibly write a model's book. That's for a 20-year-old. But I could say what I want to say without chastising the industry. "

" Eliminating the things you love is not wellness. Wellness feeds your soul and makes you feel good. "

" Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English. "

" 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. "