It didn’t rain for you, maybe, but it always rains for me. The sky shatters and rains shards of glass.
Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?
I had had an extroverted personality with a lot of friends, but when I lost the weight and grew so tall, I withdrew within myself.
There's always going to be dreams and goals I have, but I never really tell people what they are
You can't model for the rest of your life, so it is important to diversify your career.
A lot of young girls think that the opposite of fake is rudeness. And just as ugly as fake is, so is saying whatever is on your mind because it's the truth.
I love the confidence that makeup gives me.
I would continue to do the things that I do. I'd get into the field and work, and be an example to other people that you can't rely on the government to be the answer to everything.
I always felt I was living in two worlds. One was the Mexican world, because nearly everybody I knew, relatives and cousins and kids in the neighbourhood, were Mexican. Then school was a different world. It was ethnically mixed.
Don't scrutinize people with a microscope; view them from a comfortable distance. And allow some room for compassion in the space the lies between you.
All amateur travellers have experienced horror journeys, long or short, sooner or later, one way or another. As a student of disaster, I note that we react alike to our tribulations: frayed and bitter at the time, proud afterwards. Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.