Alek Wek Quotes

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Alek Wek

Profession : Designer

Birth : April 16, 1977

Going on safari in South Africa was hardcore but a lot of fun - though my friend Maura was absolutely freaking out about all the bugs in her hair and having to pee in the sand.

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I believe we should utilise any power we have for important issues that are bigger and beyond us. Whether it's with refugees or working to educate kids. I don't think you need to have gone through a civil war to do something. I believe as human beings, we can look out for each other.

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The day you stop enjoying something is the day you should quit, if you can afford to.

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I've seen mothers and children really being vulnerable in the refugee camps; it's supposed to be temporary, but they end up having children who have grown up in refugee camps.

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There are people who can look out for other human beings; there are people who can speak up when something is not right and say, 'This is wrong, and something should be done.'

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You've got to make yourself happy. I'm a happy person naturally.

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There was no concept of fashion and catwalk shows where I came from.

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In restaurants in my Brooklyn neighborhood, I always ask for a doggie bag to bring the leftovers home.

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Black girls, I feel, rock, in so many ways, especially coming from five girls.

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I meet and talk to women from every corner of this planet, and I can find beauty in each and every one of them.

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When you give, you receive.

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For me, it always goes back to what my mother taught me and my sisters. That all women are beautiful, and we should embrace each other.

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Leaving southern Sudan as a child was terrifying. It was 1985, and my family and I were trying to escape to Khartoum, the capital in the North, to safety.

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My life was filled with family in South Sudan. I am the seventh of nine children, and we grew up in what would be considered a middle-class family. We did not have a lot, but we did have more than a lot of other people.

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I think beauty is not just about what we put on our heads or on our faces or what we wear: it's deeper than that, and if we can celebrate that, celebrate the women, not just the superficiality... I think it would be really gorgeous.

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London is like my second home. I've still got friends there from school and from when I first started in the modelling business - people such as Karen Elson, Jasmine Guinness, Jade Parfitt.

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The beauty of reading is that it lets you travel in a way you could never know.

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I never thought I would see a free South Sudan.

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When I think of 'Instagram models,' I say you have to take baby steps. You cannot just walk straight onto the runway.

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When I was working, there was no digital. We actually worked; we used Polaroids.

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