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" We all want what every girl wants: to look fabulous while we're out there ruling the world. "
Iman
Out
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Girl
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" I'm against a signature look, as that can be very outdating. But having said that, I also know my best qualities, so I'm not going to foolhardily give away my power. "
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" Looking good is a commitment to yourself and to others. Wigs, killer heels, Pilates, even fillers - whatever works for you, honey. "
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" If I feel frustrated in a situation, I take a deep breath and walk away. "
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" 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. "
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" I have been a muse to Mr. Saint-Laurent, Valentino, Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, Versace. "
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" 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 had never seen 'Vogue.' I didn't read fashion magazines, I read 'Time' and 'Newsweek.' "
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" When I was in high school,we were, like, 4,000 or 5,000 students, and 50 girls - and I didn't have a date for my prom. My father paid my cousin to take me. "
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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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" On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession. "
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Birthday
" There is a lot of noise out there. I don't want to follow the trend - I want to create the trend. "
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Out
Create
Follow
" I would rather Google other people than Google myself. "
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Other
People
Google
" My looks have changed. I have laugh lines - not wrinkles. "
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Lines
Laugh
" People called me 'Iman the black model'. In my country, we're all black, so nobody called somebody else black. It was foreign to my ears. "
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Ears
Country
Black
" My mother was an activist; so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960. "
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Independence
Father
" I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence. "
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World
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You
" At the end of the day, my legacy will not be modelling but my cosmetics line. "
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Line
End
Legacy
" I'm a very political person, and I think things through clearly, even when I was 18 years old. "
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Person
Political
Think
" When everyone is telling you, 'You're so beautiful, there's nobody like you,' you begin to think it's true. But of course there is nobody like you. "
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You
Nobody
Think
" I was born in Somalia, which is in East Africa. My parents started with nothing: poor, poor, poor. They eloped, which was unheard of in my country, when my father was 17 and my mother was 14. "
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Born
Parents
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" We never do Valentine's dinner, because everybody, they look. On Valentine's, imagine me and David going to a restaurant! Like, everybody's going to say, 'Did they talk? Did they hold hands?' Twenty years. We've been married twenty years! "
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" There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important. "
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Knowledge
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" I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry. "
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" I am the face of a refugee. I was once a refugee. I was with my family in exile. "
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Once
" I am so far more secure and more grounded and more know who I am than when I was in my 20s. "
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" The day you settle for less is the day you will get less. "
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" I arrive in New York on October 15, 1975. On my own, by the way. "
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" Nobody has ever said to me that I was pretty, 'til I met Peter Beard. "
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" People talk about the miracle of birth. No. There's the miracle of conception. I did IVF, but nothing happened. So I began to think of adoption, and then I got pregnant. It was definitely a miracle. "
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