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" Social media is a great way to get discovered in the industry because it's free, it's worldwide, and everyone's on it - a very powerful combination. "

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" I'm very sick of talking about my skin. "

" My parents separated before I was born, but they remained friends, so I was close to both sides of my family, with siblings and cousins and godparents. I've had the same best friend since grade six. "

" I don't think it's good to focus on being celebrated but to celebrate yourself. "

" You think of floating on a rock in space as so alien, but that's exactly what we're doing. "

" 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. "

" When I got older, it got harder because when kids get older, they get meaner, so I went through a lot of bullying and people calling me, like, 'zebra' or 'cow,' so it was really hard growing up. "

" There wasn't anyone who was specifically taking me under their wing. I definitely looked up to people, though, one major person being Naomi Campbell, of course. That's, like, a given. "

" I feel like I have so many amazing opportunities because of my immigrant mother, my immigrant grandparents. "

" I'm not a vitiligo spokesperson just because I have vitiligo. "

" Chantelle Winnie is my birth name. Chantelle Winnie Harlow, I call her my Sasha Fierce. "

" Winnie Harlow is my alter ego like how Beyonce refers to her stage name as Sasha Fierce. "

" To be completely honest, I never thought I could become a model growing up. I actually wanted to be an entertainment journalist. "

" I wasn't part of the BeyHive before I met her, but after my experience working with her, meeting her, I'm a die-hard fan. "

" My confidence was more of a fake-it-until-you-make-it kind of thing. I tried to build my own confidence and not rely on the opinions of others. "

" I wasn't born with vitiligo. It developed when I was 4 years old. My skin changed dramatically over the next few years. "

" My modelling career is about hard work. "

" 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. "

" I have my flaws, but I embrace them and I love them because they're mine. "

" I definitely hope and I feel that I am inspiring, but I don't like the word 'role model.' "

" I am not my skin. I am a model with a skin condition. "

" If one day I'm all black, I'm still a model. If one day I'm all white, I'm still a model. "

" Some rules are there for a reason - but it's one thing to have a rule that protects and another to have rules that stifle. "

" I've never been a die-hard Beyonce fan. I always thought she was inspirational and beautiful. "

" I get comments saying that I'm a leper, I control how my skin changes, I bleach my skin, my skin's burned. None of those are true. "

" 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. "

" Growing up in the greater Toronto area, I was a happy kid. I was my mother's first child, surrounded by admiring godparents and cousins. "

" I feel like people put too much on the title of a role model. "

" I love to play with make-up. I adapt my beauty look to my outfit, so as soon as I know what I'm wearing, I know if I want to go for a red lip or a smoky eye. I usually won't put those two together, but it all depends on what outfit I'm going for. "

" If humans want to see the same types of people over and over, that's what industries will give us. If we want to see something different, that's what they'll have to give us. "

" I'm just living life. And if that inspires you, I'm proud, but I'm not going to put pressure on myself to be the best person in the world and tell everyone I have vitiligo. If you want to know about it, you can do your research. Either way, I'm not in the dictionary under 'vitiligo.' "