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Iman Quotes

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

– Iman

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

I’ve always said if what I’m going to create doesn’t look good on everybody, I’m not going to do it.

– Iman

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

– Iman

Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.

– Iman

My looks have changed. I have laugh lines – not wrinkles.

– Iman

The difference between rearing a child in your 20s and one in your 50s is one of patience.

– Iman

People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.

– Iman

I arrive in New York on October 15, 1975. On my own, by the way.

– Iman

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

At the end of the day, my legacy will not be modelling but my cosmetics line.

– Iman

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

I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.

– Iman

I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.

– Iman

I wanted a bronzer so I could look like I just came from Ibiza everyday.

– Iman

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

We never wore burkas because Somalis had our own culture.

– Iman

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.

– Iman

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

I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father’s footsteps.

– Iman

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

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

I had never seen ‘Vogue.’ I didn’t read fashion magazines, I read ‘Time’ and ‘Newsweek.’

– Iman

I am so far more secure and more grounded and more know who I am than when I was in my 20s.

– Iman

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

We all want what every girl wants: to look fabulous while we’re out there ruling the world.

– Iman

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

I was never a practicing Muslim. But I do consider myself a Muslim.

– Iman

The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves – hence, they reinvent the world around them.

– Iman

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

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