Top 100 Quotes About Iman
#1. Iman is to believe, even when an overpowering tide of evil surrounds you.
Anwar Al-Awlaki
#2. 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
#3. Sam- I didn't know you had a last name I thought you were like Iman or Madonna or Beyonce. You just needed the one name.
Dekka- Yeah sure, me and Beyonce
Michael Grant
#4. I was admittedly comfortable with Iman Cosmetics being identified as a beauty brand that filled the gap for black women because it was deeply personal for me.
Iman
#6. O my son! The dunya (world) is a deep ocean in which many have drowned! Let your ship be taqwallah (fear of Allah), and load your ship with Iman-billah (believe in Allah), and let her sail be tawakkal (trust) on Allah! Insha'Allah you will survive then.
Luqman
#7. There's something I call telegenekicity, and it's not about just models. Of course, I can reference Iman, Tatiana Patitz, Kelly Emberg, Bonnie Berman - I go all the way back - but I think that you develop an eye to register iconic images - like Greta Garbo and Elizabeth Taylor.
Michael Flutie
#8. Just a reminder,.... No Matter what you do for a living, what circumstances are... If you have IMAN you wont miss or delay your Salat.
Hina
#9. I don't want to be known as the black model. I want to be recognized as Chanel Iman, a personality.
Chanel Iman
#10. The relation of patience to iman is like the relation of the head to the body. If the head is chopped off, the body becomes useless. Then he raised his voice and said: Certainly, the one who has no patience has no iman, and patience is like a riding-beast that nevers gets tired
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#11. If you want to kill something, neglect it. It happens in both good and bad. Neglect a relationship, it dies. Neglect your iman, it dies. But the same principal applies when you want to kill something like a thought or a desire. Neglect it, it dies.
Yasmin Mogahed
#12. Don't tell me the skies the limit when there are footprints on the moon.
-Aminah Iman
Aminah Iman
#13. 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
#14. The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves - hence, they reinvent the world around them.
Iman
#15. Pulling off a zebra-print dress can be challenging for some.
Iman Abdulmajid
#16. 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
#17. We always had 'Vogue' in our house. But, when I was around 12, my Mom finally took me seriously about modeling and put a stack of magazines in front of me, then told me to study all the poses. The ones I loved the most were in 'Vogue.'
Chanel Iman
#18. 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
#20. At the end of the day, a 34B doesn't give you self-esteem.
Iman
#21. In a couple of years, I'll be the most glamorous woman, hopefully.
Chanel Iman
#22. The first time my friends saw me in a magazine I was so excited.
Chanel Iman
#23. The difference between rearing a child in your 20s and one in your 50s is one of patience.
Iman
#24. As I always said: I fell in with David Jones. I did not fall in love with David Bowie.
Iman
#25. Don't be afraid to walk away from things that are just not right for you.
Iman Abdulmajid
#26. I have had the privilege of working with the best in the business, from photographers to designers to magazines. There's not much more to ask for but I'm still looking forward to one day working with photographers Mert and Marcus, Tim Walker and Nick Knight.
Chanel Iman
#27. My looks have changed. I have laugh lines - not wrinkles.
Iman
#28. I don't get facials. The last time I got a facial was when I first started modeling when I was 15 or 16. It made my face completely break out.
Chanel Iman
#29. I drink a lot of protein shakes and do a lot of weight lifting.
Chanel Iman
#30. It usually takes an ethnic girl - I'm not saying black, I'm saying ethnic, let's make that clear - twice as long. We've gotta work extra-hard to stay in the game and stay with the girls who do well but aren't ethnic.
Chanel Iman
#31. Intelligence is sexy. Don't play dumb, especially young girls. Don't play dumb. And let people see that you are intelligent.
Iman
#32. I have a certain manner of speech that is unique to me. I tried once to have my staff tweet for me, and it was a disaster! People knew right away that it wasn't me.
Iman
#33. I'm grateful to look the way I do. However, if I could change anything, I would like to be a bit bigger all over. Not much - just a bit.
Chanel Iman
#34. There are highlights when you become irreplaceable as a model, like when you become a muse to designers. They look at you differently; you're not a coat hanger for hire.
Iman
#35. I was born in Somalia, which is in East Africa. My parents started with nothing: poor, poor, poor. They eloped, which was unheard of in my country, when my father was 17 and my mother was 14.
Iman
#36. At the end of the day, my legacy will not be modelling but my cosmetics line.
Iman
#37. Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.
Iman
#38. It's really not a good idea to forecast or double guess the fates; you will always be fooled.
Iman
#39. Every generation and every group brings the door into other things.
Iman Abdulmajid
#40. I believe the universe has great plans for us. When you are young, you don't learn that.
Iman
#41. There are some people who have helped to advance me and other girls, but the fashion industry is always behind popular culture. They think they understand the zeitgeist. They don't know anything about the zeitgeist.
Iman
#42. in a world full of trends, i want to remain a classic
Iman
#43. I arrive in New York on October 15, 1975. On my own, by the way.
Iman
#44. I'm really into natural and organic products.
Chanel Iman
#45. I'm really focused when I'm working out, so I don't really listen to music. I like to listen to music after, because it's like, 'Yeah! I finished! Let's party!'
Chanel Iman
#46. I'm a Christian girl. I pray every night and before meals and before I go on stage not to fall.
Chanel Iman
#47. Eliminating the things you love is not wellness. Wellness feeds your soul and makes you feel good.
Iman
#48. 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.
Iman
#49. My saving grace was that I always knew when to leave the party.
Iman Abdulmajid
#50. Life is too short not to have pasta, steak, and butter.
Iman
#51. The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.
Iman
#52. I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
Iman
#53. I'm just really tiny. People hate me, because I just sit. I'm eating, I'm eating, I'm eating and then I just ... sit. And I don't gain a thing.
Chanel Iman
#54. Beauty is being comfortable and confident in your own skin.
Iman
#55. I used to dress up as a model for Halloween, like every year.
Chanel Iman
#56. At the end of the day, I feel like I have no one to blame but myself if I'm not satisfied with how I look on the runway.
Chanel Iman
#57. I was a very nerdy child. I never fit in, so I became laboriously studious.
Iman
#58. I didn't start exercising until the end of my modeling career. When you're young, you eat and drink what you want and stay up all night and still look good.
Iman
#59. I'm 23 right now and I feel like I'm still trying to figure it out. Maybe in another two years, I'll have it all together. So maybe 25 is the age at which a woman feels her most beautiful just because she's survived her teenage years and early twenties.
Chanel Iman
#60. I was not considered beautiful at all. Really. And this is what all models say. But I'm still not considered that beautiful in my country. I don't know the beauty ideal where I come from - but it's not me.
Iman
#61. I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.
Iman
#62. I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.
Iman
#63. When I was a little girl, I lived for modeling and fashion - I used to love, love, love modeling.
Chanel Iman
#64. I tell all my younger friends, 'Don't be afraid of change. That is when you truly see what your destiny is.'
Iman
#65. When I was in high school,we were, like, 4,000 or 5,000 students, and 50 girls - and I didn't have a date for my prom. My father paid my cousin to take me.
Iman
#66. When 9/11 happened, 12 of our neighborhood firemen were killed. I looked around at the country that had adopted me and I became an American.
Iman Abdulmajid
#67. I am so far more secure and more grounded and more know who I am than when I was in my 20s.
Iman
#68. I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.
Iman
#69. That's my next journey - to be a great actress.
Chanel Iman
#70. 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.
Chanel Iman
#71. I want to do television, film, music and designing. I want to do it all!
Chanel Iman
#72. We all want what every girl wants: to look fabulous while we're out there ruling the world.
Iman
#73. Honestly, I try to forget Fashion Week once it's over. I just want to go home and rest and just forget I even did it. It could drive you crazy! It's just show after show after show, and you're missing your family and they feel really far away. You don't go to sleep. You work for a month.
Chanel Iman
#74. People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.
Iman
#75. Five years from now I see myself still working hard to get where I want to be, because I think big.
Chanel Iman
#76. I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.
Iman
#77. My father ... gave me a positive connection with men because he is a gentleman.
Iman
#78. We grew up as poor people but we never knew poverty. I still love and miss the Somalia I grew up in. Things changed, when my father became a diplomat later on.
Iman Abdulmajid
#79. You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
Iman
#80. I wanted a bronzer so I could look like I just came from Ibiza everyday.
Iman
#81. We all have friends and loved ones who say 60's the new 30. No. Sixty's the new 60.
Iman
#82. We are very private, so we decided from early on that we will keep the press and editors and everybody out of our house.
Iman
#83. When everyone is telling you, 'You're so beautiful, there's nobody like you,' you begin to think it's true. But of course there is nobody like you.
Iman
#84. As a young girl, I was much more preoccupied by my flaws. Everyone teased me because of my long, skinny neck. To hide my so-called deformity, I was wearing a turtleneck when I was 3! Yet my neck is probably my best asset. At the end of the day, what counts is the entire package.
Iman Abdulmajid
#85. I'm a very political person, and I think things through clearly, even when I was 18 years old.
Iman
#86. I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
Iman
#87. On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession.
Iman
#88. 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.
Iman
#89. I don't love eating meat. I really only like chicken and fish.
Iman
#90. Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.
Iman
#91. I am comfortable with my body and embrace who I am. I love to work it.
Chanel Iman
#93. No one had told me that the tax of playing big will be having to play big all the time. At first I chased my dream for me. Now I chase my dreams as a service for humanity. When I do so, people dare to chase their own dreams. They look up at me and get motivated to play big.
Iman Refaat
#94. I was under 18, and to leave Kenya to come to the United States, to get a passport, you had to be 18. So I lied and said I was 19 to get the passport, because otherwise, I had to have permission from my parents, and my parents would never have let me come.
Iman
#95. I always take my time when picking out outfits at home, but I will say I can change pretty quick when I'm in a hurry.
Chanel Iman
#96. If I feel frustrated in a situation, I take a deep breath and walk away.
Iman
#97. 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.
Chanel Iman
#98. When I started modeling, they tried to pay black models less than they paid Caucasian models. I turned down those jobs because I knew what I was worth.
Iman
#99. The truth was I felt ugly growing up. I only really started feeling comfortable in myself when I was 40.
Iman
#100. A self-esteem issue doesn't change whether you're considered beautiful or not because it's about what's inside you.
Iman Abdulmajid
