84 quotes by somali authors for you to enjoy

Beauty is being comfortable and confident in your own skin. Iman

Beauty Own Skin Comfortable Confident Being Your

I love life. I wish I could live another 500 years, truly. There is so much to do. I don't feel bitter or angry or disappointed. If anything, I am very grateful for where I come from. I have absolutely no regrets. Waris Dirie

Life Love Angry Grateful Love Life Wish Live Bitter No Regrets Could Absolutely Disappointed Feel Come Another Am Years Truly Very Where Anything Regrets Much

If I feel frustrated in a situation, I take a deep breath and walk away. Iman

Walk Situation Breath Take Take A Deep Breath Feel Frustrated Deep Deep Breath Away

The day you settle for less is the day you will get less. Iman

Day You Will Settle Get Less

I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali. Iman

Woman White Somali Like Look

At the end of the day, a 34B doesn't give you self-esteem. Iman

Day You End Of The Day Give Self-Esteem End

Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening. Waris Dirie

Good Brooklyn Happening Funky

I belong nowhere and to no one. Waris Dirie

No-One Nowhere Belong

It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. I'm not a politician. Barkhad Abdi

Me People Political Try Politician Weird Lot Questions Ask

When I was leaving Yemen to come to America, things were tough. My dad had just been laid off, and it was a challenge. When I lived in Yemen, I thought America was a perfect place. Everything was bigger and better. I dreamed big. The American dream, you know? You have to work hard for your dream to come true. Barkhad Abdi

Work You Work Hard Better Challenge Thought Tough Big Everything Dream Dreamed Perfect Had True Come Know Leaving Were Been Off Yemen America American Just American Dream Bigger Laid Place Your Hard Your Dream Dad Lived Things

I would DJ pool parties in Minneapolis, but I never swam there! Barkhad Abdi

Pool Would Minneapolis Never Parties

What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play. Barkhad Abdi

Work Hard Work Myself People Challenge Will Believe Meet Projects Correctly Characters Like Make Lot Going Want Then Successful Acting Acting Career Hard Choosing Forward Play Career

I used to play football all the time. In the U.S., people don't play football, so I had to learn basketball. Looking back, that's what I like about my life - doing new things, having a new perspective. Barkhad Abdi

Life Time People Perspective My Life Looking Looking Back New Things Back About Having Had Football New Like Learn Doing New Perspective Used Play Play Football Things Basketball

I don't recognize my people anymore. I feel Somalia is lost. There is no Somalia. It is just a name. Hawa Abdi

People Lost Recognize Somalia Feel Name Just Anymore

When I decided to become a doctor, I was very, very young, when my mother, her seventh child, became pregnant, and she was feeling terrible pain, and I could not know how to help her. And my mother died in front of my eyes, without knowing why, which diagnosis. So I decided to be a doctor. Hawa Abdi

Eyes Doctor Mother Feeling Become Young Pain Seventh Could Know Knowing She Terrible Became Without Diagnosis How Very Child Died Front Decided Which Pregnant Help Why Her

The long-term solution in preventing another famine in Somalia is to promote self-reliance. Hawa Abdi

Solution Promote Somalia Preventing Long-Term Another Self-Reliance Famine

I have big hope for the Canadian government to help Somalia with something concrete and tangible. I haven't seen that. Hawa Abdi

Hope Government Seen Big Somalia Something Concrete Tangible Canadian Help

We women in Somalia are trying to be leaders in our community. Hawa Abdi

Women Community Our Our Community Somalia Leaders Trying

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

World Girl Every Ruling Out Fabulous Look Want Wants While

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 Me Culture People Girl Some People Think Other Some About Advance Know Industry Understand Always Behind Anything Who Helped Popular Popular Culture Fashion Industry Zeitgeist

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

Life Silence You Yourself Interior World Will Critic Eat Horrible Outside Outside World Had Self-Esteem Because Within Up Low Low Self-Esteem Really Your Growing Growing Up Suffer Save

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

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