"I've always been very shy of doing television. I've always said 'no.' Not to be disrespectful to anyone - I didn't want to say 'yes' and then let people down."
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"Well, when I started modeling in the mid-'80s, the girls who did shows did shows, and the girls who did magazines did magazines. That's what was understood."
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"I do feel that I'm talking to someone who's in a totally different place from where I was when I started modeling. I was fortunate enough to have the wonderful designers and amazing photographers around me, and editors that I knew, and if I wanted to ask a question, I asked them. So that gap has broadened a bit."
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"When I started out modeling, there weren’t casting directors and there weren’t stylists, so you just dealt directly with the designer. We were all much closer back then..."
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"I don't mind flying. I always pass out before the plane leaves the ground."
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"I dream of a world liberated of all diseases. Ignorance also upsets me a lot. How can one calmly look at the pictures from Rwanda and not instantly want to take action and try to ease the suffering?"
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"I was excited to explore and see the world. I'd been traveling since I was 6 months old, so I was never fearful of getting on a plane and going somewhere - even America."
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"I'm not angry. And I don't like the thing of the 'angry black woman,' either."
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"I trust pictures, but no pictures made in my world - because I know what goes on."
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"I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that and I am open enough to say it."
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"I've never made an excuse of not knowing my father, because I've had great people in my life."
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"I don't like workouts that make you bulky."
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"You see all races in music, and in dance and theatre, so why can't we see it in fashion?"
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"I've never known my real father, and I've never looked for a father figure in a boyfriend, but I suppose I have looked for real father figures in my life - and I've acquired more than one. I certainly couldn't ask for better ones. I love them enormously - and they know that."
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"I've never had a fear of traveling and going to a new place. I adapt."
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