Black Model Quotes

#1. People called me 'Iman the black model'. In my country, we're all black, so nobody called somebody else black. It was foreign to my ears.

Iman

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

Chanel Iman

#3. I have a beautiful pair of Giuseppe Zanotti black pumps that make me feel like a model every time I put them on. I have a pair of Jimmy Choo flats I would marry, if I could.

Lauren Oliver

#4. You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#5. After catching an arrow in the back and passing out in Tom the Feather's barnyard, Hadrian had woken up on a comfortable bed surrounded by lovely women. He thought he'd died and regretted every time he'd ever cursed Maribor's name.

Michael J. Sullivan

#6. You know, I've never believed, in anything, that you had to have role models who looked like you to do something. If I'd been waiting for a black, female, soviet specialist role model, I'd be still waiting.

Condoleezza Rice

#7. We have to be aware that fossil fuel energy sources have an expiry date. A timeframe of 30, 40 or 50 years can seem a long time to get rewards for economic policy, but it's only a short time for implementing a new energy policy.

Carlo Rubbia

#8. Ever since Pele's extraordinary talents blessed the world of football, black footballers have been accepted in the pantheon of the greats. But to achieve commercial recognition is somewhat different: it requires a form of adulation that also spells identification and role model.

Martin Jacques

#9. I used to say in interviews that I don't necessarily want to be the first black woman or first model to do certain things; I just want to see it done.

Tyra Banks

#10. Effective leadership is about earning respect, and it's also about personality and charisma

Alan Sugar

#11. Biology has progressed tremendously due to the model that Darwin put forth. But the black boxes Darwin accepted are now being opened, and our view of the world is again being shaken.

Michael Behe

#12. 'One More Summer' is one of those songs that I think will go over really well.

Tom Dumont

#13. I find it weird when [model] agents say, 'You're the only black girl booked for the show. Isn't it great?' Why is it great?

Jourdan Dunn

#14. We have seen a lot of interest from Chinese developers on Google Play because the extent to which Android is used. If we can figure out a model by which we can serve those users, it would be a privilege to do so. So I don't think of China as a black hole.

Sundar Pichai

#15. -When I was growing up, Lieutenant Uhura was a major role model for me, a strong black woman on the bridge of a starship ...
-In a miniskirt, answering the interplanetary telephone?

Suzanne Brockmann

#16. Obama was the best thing for black nerds everywhere. Finally we had a role model. Before Obama, we basically had Urkel.

Jordan Peele

#17. No man wants to give a woman the power to crush his ego, and baby, I hate to tell you this, because I like that you don't realize how beautiful you are, but you are the kind of woman that could make a man feel like he has it all or make him feel like he has absolutely nothing.

Aurora Rose Reynolds

#18. Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.

Henry Ford

#19. Why would a black or brown nation stake its future on America's model of democracy when within its own borders the United States enforced discrimination and savagery against people who looked just like them? The

Margot Lee Shetterly

#20. In the interest rate area, traders have for a long time used a version of what is known as Black's model for European bond options; another version of the same model for caps and floors; and yet another version of the same model for European swap options.

John Hull

#21. Bettie Page was number one. I have never known another model who had better knowledge of her body or how to work with it to make it look so good. Her skin was perfect, no blemishes. Perfect nose, beautiful straight teeth, and gleaming, shiny black hair that was always in place, always.

Bunny Yeager

#22. The popular idea of a role model implies that an adult's influence on a child is primarily occupational, and that all a black child needs is to see a black doctor, and then this child will think, "Oh, I can become a doctor too."

Richard Rodriguez

#23. I am happy to be a role model for anybody - whether they are black, white, yellow, pink or purple.

Paul Ince

#24. I miss Manchester, especially the apple crumble and custard they served at Carrington after training.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#25. (The Gentle Reader may perhaps have suffered from this difficulty.)

E. Nesbit

#26. It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed in the late 60s when black studies started. You'd get one here and one there and one here, like Johnny Appleseed.

Henry Louis Gates

#27. Skinny like a model with her eyes all painted black, keeps going to the bathroom always says she'll be right back

Caroline Weiss

#28. The longer-term the option, the sillier the results generated by the Black-Scholes option pricing model, and the greater the opportunity for people who didn't use it.

Michael Lewis

#29. For me the music community was always like a model for what could be. The way people would play together, just harmony and being - old guys and young guys, black guys and white guys. It was setting an example for what the rest of us could be.

Bill Frisell

#30. Looking into it a bit, Jamie found that the model used by Wall Street to price LEAPs, the Black-Scholes option pricing model, made some strange assumptions.

Michael Lewis