“I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.”

I look at modeling as something I’m doing for black people in general.

I don’t get depressed. When I feel an attack, I withdraw. I disappear, I replenish, and then I come back.

The chocolate and crisps come in at times. You have to allow the little things that make you happy. I’m not extreme about what I eat.

I work very hard and I’m worth every cent.

If I’m wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?

My features are completely ethnic.

I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, ‘I let go and I’m going to let the cards fall where they fall; For a #‎ controlfreak , it’s hard.

[Castro is] a source of inspiration to the world.

I’m not going to wallow in self-pity and not live my life. There are always going to be some falls in life for everybody, no matter what career you have. You have to roll with the punches and keep going.

I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.

Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.

Life’s too short to bullshit.

I’m happy with the way I did my career, I wouldn’t change it in a million years. I got to do the real grafting and learning from real models when I was younger – how to open up a jacket, walk, and such.

In fact, I don’t read newspapers any longer.

In charity, every little bit works. You can’t change the world. You can’t do everything. But you sure try to bring awareness and do as much as you can.

I think it’s always good to learn a craft from scratch the real way, so that you’ve learned it from the basis, the raw bones, and then you have that to fall back on. I personally wouldn’t want it any other way.

I was born to a dad who was born in the South Bronx while the Bronx was burning, while landlords were committing arson to their own buildings.

I know what it’s like to access the privilege of a ZIP Code but also be born in one that could have destined me to something else.

I think leaving [death] can be as joyous as – probably more joyous than – being born, because being born is very physically uncomfortable for the baby.

A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.

I’m a born librarian with a sex drive.

Jesus Christ—who, as it turns out, was born of a virgin, cheated death, and rose bodily into the heavens—can now be eaten in the form of a cracker

God does not patch up the old life, or make certain repairs on the old life; He gives a new life, through the new birth.

Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human.