Accept yourself, love yourself.

A good night's sleep is always the best way to wake up and go to work.

Five years from now I see myself still working hard to get where I want to be, because I think big.

You learn to be comfortable in your own skin, and your body changes throughout life, so you can't sweat the small stuff.

I'm my own person, and I want people to know me for who I am.

I don't like to fly. What's it called when the plane shakes? Turbulence, takeoffs... I grab my chair, close my eyes, count to 30, breathe, and pray.

Don't be afraid to express yourself through fashion!

I don't want to be known as the black model. I want to be recognized as Chanel Iman, a personality.

My taste in music originates from my culture and heritage, and from traveling the world and listening to all kinds of fun sounds and bits.

It takes time to be who you really want to be. It doesn't happen overnight.

In a couple of years, I'll be the most glamorous woman, hopefully.

Life makes two promises, one, it promises to be good, and two, it promises to be bad. Cherish the good and be strong during the bad.

Colourful autumn is a tristful travel to the pale Planet of Melancholy!

the ego likes to emphasize the 'otherness' of others

Old age is a shipwreck.

Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.

I feel that the only thing that really matters in art and life is to go against the tidal wave of literalism and literal-mindedness-to insist on and live the life of the imagination.

Peace! and no longer from its brazen portals The blast of War's great organ shakes the skies! But beautiful as songs of the immortals, The holy melodies of love arise.

Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.

The rise of secularism has brought about an increase in hostility toward things religious.

I was born in Georgia. That's where my grandparents-and all my people-are from. But my family traveled a great deal because my dad was in the army as a helicopter pilot.