"When I was growing up in Somalia, my mom instilled in me, “Know your worth and know when to walk away from anything that doesn't serve you well. A man, careers, whatever it is—know when it is not serving you and walk away from it."

"First of all, you know this is a racist act, but let me put it to you from a different perspective: What I want is pay for services rendered. If I'm doing the same job as this person, I want the same pay."

"Since I've been in America, I've always been intrigued by one phrase: "She is beautiful, like the girl next door." I have always wondered whose neighborhood they were talking about."

"I get my stubborn character from my country’s shape"

"Refugees are 99 per cent of the time people who have left their countries in fear of their lives. I am the face of the refugee"

"Eliminating the things you love is not wellness. Wellness feeds your soul and makes you feel good."

"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"

"My looks have changed. I have laugh lines – not wrinkles."

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

"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"

"How Somalia’s Iman Abdulmajid Carved out a Niche in the Modelling World 3 years ago,by Elijah Oluwagbemiga"

"She has this amazing skin it sets off color and clothes in a way white women couldn’t do,” Mr. Klein"

"On the runway, she exuded style. She was an actress, a natural. She knew how to sell the clothes better than anybody",Mr.Klein"

"an icon for our times, Michael Kors"

"It’s not just enough to say that she is beautiful or beautifully dressed, although that is a part of the equation,” Mr. Kors"

"worldly, glamorous voice that has a sense of humor,” Mr. Kors"

"She’s a pretty girl, she’s already successful, and they need TV hosts. It just takes a while for the world to catch up with Iman",Ms. Hardison"