Quotes by Iman - Page 2

Looking good is a commitment to yourself and to others. Wigs, killer heels, Pilates, even fillers - whatever works for you, honey.
Iman /
Commitment
Heels
Honey
Looking Good
Pilates
Wigs
Yourself
Looking
Works
Even
Whatever
Others
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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.
Iman /
Commitment
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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.
Iman /
Black
Ears
Me People Nobody
Nobody
Me Black People
Model
Foreign
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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.
Iman /
Begin
Nobody
Course
Telling
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When I started modeling, they tried to pay black models less than they paid Caucasian models. I turned down those jobs because I knew what I was worth.
Iman /
Jobs
Black
Caucasian
Modeling
Paid
Pay
Less
Tried
Turned
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When I lived in Egypt, we always wore kaftans. I had cashmere kaftans from Halston. You put on a kaftan in your backyard, and it's like you're in Ibiza.
Iman /
Egypt
Backyard
Wore
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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.
Iman /
Fashion
Fashion Industry
Industry
Political Science
Race
Understood
Major
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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.
Iman /
Girl
Cousin
Paid
Prom
Date
High
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I didn't start exercising until the end of my modeling career. When you're young, you eat and drink what you want and stay up all night and still look good.
Iman /
All Night
Modeling
Night
Good Start Look
Career
Stay
Exercising
Good Look Night
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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.
Iman /
Cosmetics
Filled
Admittedly
Beauty Women Me
Brand
Deeply
Gap
Identified
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I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.
Iman /
Office
Six
Time Family Day
Time Family Start
Asleep
Favorite
Closed
Family Time Day
Slowly
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I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.
Iman /
Raised
Self Esteem
Major
Issue
Little Girl
Temple
Treat
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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.
Iman /
Independence
Involved
Mother
Somalia
Young
Actively
Came
Getting
Generation
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I have a certain manner of speech that is unique to me. I tried once to have my staff tweet for me, and it was a disaster! People knew right away that it wasn't me.
Iman /
Disaster
Speech
Staff
Tweet
Unique
Manner
Right Away
Tried
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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.
Iman /
Qualities
Signature
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I would go to cosmetics counters and buy two or three foundations and powders, and then go home and mix them before I came up with something suitable for my undertones.
Iman /
Cosmetics
Foundations
Go Home
Mix
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There are highlights when you become irreplaceable as a model, like when you become a muse to designers. They look at you differently; you're not a coat hanger for hire.
Iman /
Highlights
Irreplaceable
Muse
Coat
Designers
Model
Hire
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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.
Iman /
Pinnacle
Working Life
Cope
Pulled
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
Iman /
Compromise
Know Something Want
Get Married
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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.
Iman /
Born
Country
East
Mother
Poor
Somalia
Unheard
Mother Father Parents
Africa
Parents
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Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.
Iman /
Exposed
Modeling
Valuable
Visionaries
Cultures
Designers
Experiences
Lesson
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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.
Iman /
Adoption
Birth
Conception
Pregnant
Began
People Nothing Talk
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I speak five languages besides mine. I went to school in Egypt because girls weren't allowed to go to school in Saudi Arabia. It's very restricting, especially for girls; we're not allowed to go anywhere.
Iman /
Girl
Arabia
Egypt
Five
Saudi Arabia
School
Speak
Allowed
Anywhere
Besides
Languages
Mine
Restricting
Saudi
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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.
Iman /
Counting
Diverse
Exception
Human Race
Models
Norm
Representation
Runway
Campaign
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I was not considered beautiful at all. Really. And this is what all models say. But I'm still not considered that beautiful in my country. I don't know the beauty ideal where I come from - but it's not me.
Iman /
Models
Beauty Beautiful Me
Ideal
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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.
Iman /
Afternoon
Beard
Campus
Peter
Political Science
University
Asked
Stopped
Street
Photographed
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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.
Iman /
Fashion
Fashion Industry
Industry
Popular Culture
Zeitgeist
Culture Me People
Always Culture Me
Advance
Behind
Helped
Popular
Some People
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I have no intention of ever writing beauty tips on how to make an African-American nose look slimmer or Asian eyes look bigger. That's degrading. Asian eyes are what's beautiful about you and what makes you different.
Iman /
African American
Asian
Bigger
Degrading
Intention
Tips
Beauty Beautiful Look
Eyes
No Intention
Nose
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I can enjoy what I'm engaged in and be fully present rather than planning my answers to questions while someone else is speaking or thinking about my next appointment while my current engagement is still in in progress.
Iman /
Answers
Engaged
Enjoy
Next
Planning
Thinking
Questions
Appointment
Current
Fully
Present
Rather
Speaking
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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.
Iman /
Fashion Industry
Model
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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.
Iman /
Birthday
Fabulous
Mail
Trash
Card
Concession
Decadent
Meal
Putting
Wallet
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I have a 15-year-old daughter who thinks that I always had this self confidence that I have now at the age of 60. And I always tell her that what she is going through - the low self-esteem as a teenager - that is a right of passage.
Iman /
Confidence
Daughter
Low Self Esteem
Self Esteem
Low
Passage
Thinks
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After the bones mended, my left eye was smaller than my right, and my eyebrow never grew back. But you know what? Big deal. I think I became beautiful after the accident. I became kinder, more aware. I gained respect for other people.
Iman /
Big Deal
Bones
Eye
Accident
Aware
Gained
Mended
Smaller
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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!
Iman /
Valentine
Dinner
David
Restaurant
Twenty
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Granted, I've changed internally as I've gotten older - I take it easy, I know when to stop and take care of myself, I laugh much more and with my belly and soul - but this comes from the confidence and acceptance that comes with maturity.
Iman /
Confidence
Acceptance
Belly
Care
Changed
Easy
Granted
Maturity
Soul
Take Care
Gotten
Older
Laugh
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My given name was Zahra, which is the 'flower of the desert.' I don't look anything like the flower of the desert. My name was changed by my grandfather to Iman, which means 'have faith.' And it meant to have faith that a daughter would come.
Iman /
Daughter
Faith
Changed
Desert
Flower
Given
Grandfather
Meant
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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.
Iman /
Growing Up
Horrible
Low Self Esteem
Outside World
Self Esteem
Silence
Life World Yourself
Eat
Within
Critic
Interior
Low
Outside
Save
Suffer
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I was under 18, and to leave Kenya to come to the United States, to get a passport, you had to be 18. So I lied and said I was 19 to get the passport, because otherwise, I had to have permission from my parents, and my parents would never have let me come.
Iman /
Lied
Permission
Me Parents Never
Passport
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On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs.
Iman /
New York
Home
Cab
Dinner
Eye
Friday
Friday Night
Impact
Light
Night
Partition
Ran
Red
Ribs
Riding
Taxi
Thrown
Hit
Driver
Fractured
Glass
Red Light
Several
Toward
Tried
York
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That is something that my mother instilled in me at a very young age - to know my self-worth. And I have had times again and again in the fashion industry where all of that was tested and I rose to the occasion because I was told that I am worthy and I should be able to walk away from something that is not worthy of me.
Iman /
Age
Able
Fashion
Fashion Industry
Industry
Mother
Self Worth
Tested
Worthy
Young
Young Age
Age I Am Me
Again
Away
Times
Walk
Instilled
Occasion
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