Alek Wek Quotes

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Alek Wek

Profession : Designer

Birth : April 16, 1977

I love cooking. I love having friends around.

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You can feel very strongly that someone doesn't like you. I think any model who didn't have the same sort of upbringing as me would find that very difficult. But I absolutely knew I was entitled. I never thought I was ugly - it never crossed my mind.

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I still have dreams in which someone is coming to the door.

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War tore my family apart.

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When I talk, it shouldn't just be black girls listening.

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I know how it feels to go hungry.

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South Sudanese people are rich like the soil; they just need a little water, and they will grow.

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I had serious psoriasis as a child - it's strange that I make my living off my looks after years of looking like a monster.

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When I started modeling, it was like, 'Oh, she's too dark,' and I kind of looked at them like, 'You're too daft.'

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I don't understand when people are being greedy or mean, when they say who should get what, when they get control of someone else's life.

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I like to accept it all, the negative and the positive.

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My mother always has embedded in us that you guys rock in different ways, and to be able to celebrate that with each other is just beautiful.

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I used to have nightmares about the civil war when I got to England at ages 14 to 15. It took me some years to get over that.

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I like unique little boutique hotels, such as Blakes in London.

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There's one thing we all share: We eat to nurture ourselves, to feel stronger.

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I would love to continue to model but also have a family.

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Having arrived in London to seek refuge during the civil war in Sudan, where I was born, the thing I'm most proud of is having totally evolved. I came here not knowing how to speak English, but I went to school and learned; I adapted to this new culture.

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My experience as a refugee had made me strong; I could survive anything, even the world of fashion.

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There are tons of black girls modeling, and each one is special.

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Everything has to do with education: If you educate the girls, you educate the family, the community, and society, in general.

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