Joan Smalls Quotes

#1. My personal style is bipolar. Sometimes I feel like dressing in a boyish leather jacket; other times I want to dress more elegantly. Most of the time it's what I like to call 'comfortable chic': Giuseppe Zanotti flat sandals, Rag & Bone jeans, slouchy Isabel Marant shirts.

Joan Smalls

#2. People don't realize that when you're Latin, you're so diverse. I am black. I am Latin. I am Spanish. You know? It's a little bit of everything, and that's beautiful. So, everybody, claim me. I'm fine with that!

Joan Smalls

#3. I know I'm representing a group - black, Latin, whatever you want to put me with - and I want to show that they are beautiful the way they are. I think that's really important for our youth to see.

Joan Smalls

#4. I feel blessed that I still have the little Dolly in my heart, I'm still the same girl that wants to squeeze every little drop out of life that I can.

Dolly Parton

#5. What is it to be a color? Color is the touch of the eye, music to the deaf, a word out of the darkness.

Orhan Pamuk

#6. I was always very, very insecure about my height. Even as a 15-year-old I was a foot and a half taller than everyone.

Joan Smalls

#7. Messi is much more than being clever. He is a genius who reserves all his expressiveness for football.

John Carlin

#8. When you look at the world, the world isn't just one palette. It's a beautiful rainbow, and why not have someone to represent that rainbow?

Joan Smalls

#9. I also work out because I have scoliosis. I have to maintain certain strength in my core.

Joan Smalls

#10. I would always hunch over, I was always taller than the boys. I had the extremely skinny legs ... I would double up my socks, those ones from Footlocker, to make my legs look thicker.

Joan Smalls

#11. I'm a little bit of everything. Sometimes people think I'm not Puerto Rican, because my name doesn't sound Spanish.

Joan Smalls

#12. Chuse thy Cloaths by thine own Eyes, not another's. The more plain and simple they are, the better. Neither unshapely, nor fantastical; and for Use and Decency, and not for Pride. 75. If thou art clean and warm, it is sufficient; for more doth but rob the Poor, and please the Wanton.

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#13. When you want something so bad and when something great happens, I think it's instinct that you say, 'This is gonna be the moment that's gonna change everything. Everybody is gonna see me a different way.'

Joan Smalls

#14. Genius,thou gift of heaven; without whose aid in vain we struggle against the stream of nature.

Henry Fielding

#15. I think it's nice to know that people in the industry are paying attention to all of the hard work you've done throughout the years and rewarding you for it. It reminds you to keep doing it, to keep pushing yourself, and to always remain that way.

Joan Smalls

#16. My bikini, a pair of black high heels and a pair of comfortable jeans.

Joan Smalls

#17. Don't stop believing in miracles.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

#18. I try not to go to sleep with makeup, because I think it clogs your pores. I always wash my face with something that contains salicylic acid.

Joan Smalls

#19. I adore my two older sisters, Erika and Betsy.

Joan Smalls

#20. Dutch liberator William the Silent: "It is not necessary to hope in order to undertake; it is not necessary to succeed in order to persevere.

Clara Claiborne Park

#21. Is it weird that I'm picturing what Aideen's pussy looks like now?" Nico muttered aloud.

L.A. Casey

#22. When you mercilessly fire deadly bullets at innocent people taking part in a debate, when you attack the Jewish community, you attack our democracy, we will do everything possible to protect our Jewish community.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#23. I've always been athletic. Growing up in Puerto Rico, and being in the countryside, I was always running around. I also played volleyball, basketball, and I ran track. I was always very conscious of my body.

Joan Smalls

#24. I would like to pick Rihanna's brain. I love her style and what she does.

Joan Smalls

#25. I became obsessed watching fashion TV shows when I was a teenager and recognized that I had the height and body frame. I especially became hooked when I saw on 'E! True Hollywood Story' how much a model can make and how I can achieve a better living for my family and me.

Joan Smalls

#26. I just want to continue to break barriers and to show the industry and the world that beauty is diverse, and you don't have to be a certain stereotype to be beautiful.

Joan Smalls

#27. Fashion is part of our culture, and it's about more than just a pretty dress.

Joan Smalls

#28. A career high was when I did a cover for 'W Magazine's July issue with Steven Meisel. So few girls shoot with Meisel in their career, and a lot of people had told me I would never achieve that, so it was a dream come true.

Joan Smalls