Iman Abdulmajid famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

As a young girl, I was much more preoccupied by my flaws. Everyone teased me because of my long, skinny neck. To hide my so-called deformity, I was wearing a turtleneck when I was 3! Yet my neck is probably my best asset. At the end of the day, what counts is the entire package.
-- Iman Abdulmajid

#Girl #Long #Insecurity
Don't be afraid to walk away from things that are just not right for you.
-- Iman Abdulmajid

#Walks
For me, diversity whether you think of it as race or gender, it's not a trend, it's a human movement, it's a human feeling, it's a human desire.
-- Iman Abdulmajid

#Thinking #Race #Diversity
I believe in glamour. I am in favor of a little vanity. I don't rely on just my genes. Looking good is a commitment to yourself and to others.
-- Iman Abdulmajid

#Believe #Commitment #Vanity
A self-esteem issue doesn't change whether you're considered beautiful or not because it's about what's inside you.
-- Iman Abdulmajid

#Beautiful #Self Esteem #Issues
My saving grace was that I always knew when to leave the party.
-- Iman Abdulmajid

#Party #Grace #Saving
There is no age better than another.
-- Iman Abdulmajid

#Age
If you are an activist, you have to stay active on a daily basis.
-- Iman Abdulmajid

#Activist #Bases #Active
I come from Somalia. We start working young, and we understand that kind of life. I would be bored to death not doing anything creative.
-- Iman Abdulmajid

#Bored #Creative #Would Be
The one thing my mother instilled in me, well both my parents but specifically my mother - I come from a Muslim country where boys were more wanted than girls so she always made me feel that there is nothing that I couldn't do as well as the boys if not better.
-- Iman Abdulmajid

#Girl #Mother #Country
Make sure your decision to have a child is based on the need to share your life completely with another little human being and not because of some personal need for validation as a woman.
-- Iman Abdulmajid

#Children #Validation #Decision
I would rather Google other people than Google myself.
-- Iman Abdulmajid

#People #Google
Your image as a model is your currency. That's the only thing you've got. No one cares what you look like in real life. Nobody is going to say the make up guy was terrible. They will say, you look awful and let's not book her again.
-- Iman Abdulmajid

#Real #Book #Guy
The relationship I have with Bethann [Hardison], it's so unique. It's based on trust. But most importantly, Bethann is the one who will call on me if I'm doing something wrong. That's a very specific relationship.
-- Iman Abdulmajid

#Unique #Ifs
We grew up as poor people but we never knew poverty. I still love and miss the Somalia I grew up in. Things changed, when my father became a diplomat later on.
-- Iman Abdulmajid

#Father #People #Missing
No one is calling any of these designers racist. The act itself is racist. There were more black models working in the Seventies than there are in 2013. This a time when silence is not acceptable at all. If the conversation cannot be had publicly in our industry, then there is something inherently wrong.
-- Iman Abdulmajid

#Silence #Black #Racist
Every generation and every group brings the door into other things.
-- Iman Abdulmajid

#Doors #Groups #Generations
My worst year. The only thing that I know for a fact now is that if it's really a bad day, then I draw the curtains, and I lay in bed. There is no way of dealing with grief. And I have no idea. This year I had double of them, my mother and my husband. I just take it one day at a time.
-- Iman Abdulmajid

#Mother #Husband #Grief
If I say something about David [Bowie], I get 1000 tweets, if I say something about my business just a few! The more personal, the better.
-- Iman Abdulmajid

#Tweet #Bowie #Ifs
There is strength in numbers.
-- Iman Abdulmajid

#Numbers #Strength In Numbers
I don't do anything by myself. I have a whole crew to get me ready every day.
-- Iman Abdulmajid

#Crew #Ready #Whole
I think it came out of the fact that I'm a very personal person who lives a very public life. It's the only thing that I thought people would want to hear, and it's never about just being inspirational.
-- Iman Abdulmajid

#Thinking #People #Just Being

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