Quotes by somali authors

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 a very nerdy child. I never fit in, so I became laboriously studious. Iman

Nerdy Never Studious Became Fit Very Child

I had never seen 'Vogue.' I didn't read fashion magazines, I read 'Time' and 'Newsweek.' Iman

Time Fashion Seen Magazines Vogue Never Had Read Newsweek

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

People Picture Year Starving Out See Get After

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

Buy Home Three Before Suitable Would Cosmetics Something Came Go Mix Go Home Up Them Then Foundations Two

We all have friends and loved ones who say 60's the new 30. No. Sixty's the new 60. Iman

Say New Friends Sixty Loved Loved Ones Who

My given name was Zahra, which is the 'flower of the desert.' I don't look anything like the flower of the desert. My name was changed by my grandfather to Iman, which means 'have faith.' And it meant to have faith that a daughter would come. Iman

Faith Daughter Flower Changed Would Given Name Come Like Look Anything Which Grandfather Means Meant Desert

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

Good Everybody Look Said Always Going Create

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

Science Political Father Follow Studying Footsteps Political Science Going Adamant

I believe in glamour. I am in favor of a little vanity. I don't rely on just my genes. Iman

Believe Favor Vanity Rely Glamour Genes Am Just Little

I thought at 46 years old, I've been removed from the fashion industry for 10 years. I couldn't possibly write a model's book. That's for a 20-year-old. But I could say what I want to say without chastising the industry. Iman

Fashion Book Old Thought Say Possibly Could Write Industry Without Been Years Model Want Fashion Industry

I don't love eating meat. I really only like chicken and fish. Iman

Love Eating Only Like Fish Chicken Really Meat

Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien. Iman

Alien Markets Multicultural

The people who are the most successful in life are not stopped by fear. Iman

Life People Fear Most Stopped Successful Who

I believe the universe has great plans for us. When you are young, you don't learn that. Iman

Great You Young Believe Universe Learn Us Plans

When I lived in Egypt, we always wore kaftans. I had cashmere kaftans from Halston. You put on a kaftan in your backyard, and it's like you're in Ibiza. Iman

You Backyard Had Put Like Always Egypt Wore Your Lived

I can't stand my legs, for a start, and you rarely see me in skirts. Iman

Me You See Rarely Legs Stand Skirts Start

It was interesting to find how dominating American vision is all over the world. I think there's something to be said about the world's mindset and its economics and all of that, and I think it affects the way we see ourselves and it affects music. K'naan

I have moments of darkness, of anger, and moments of rage. They do creep up at the most inopportune times. Not to recognize that in my music would give people a sense of sainthood that I don't necessarily have or even want to have. K'naan

Music Anger People Darkness Sense Rage Recognize Would Give Most Sainthood Up Times Want Moments Even Necessarily Creep

I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from. K'naan

Writing Somewhere Only Write Know How Authenticity Center Place

I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something. K'naan

It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know. K'naan

You Know Instrument Interested Really Filmmaking

Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser if you're making music until you prove otherwise. K'naan

Success Music Art You Language Country Otherwise High Until Making Prove Loser Same Any Regard After Held