Zozibini Tunzi Quotes

Zozibini Tunzi

Profession : Model

Birth : September 18, 1993

I think the most important thing... is leadership. It's something that has been lacking in young women and girls for a very long time, not because we don't want to but because of what society has labeled women to be. I think we are the most powerful beings in the world and that we should be given every opportunity.

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We should be teaching young girls to take up space. Nothing is as important as taking up space in society and cementing yourself.

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I believe that every single person was brought into this world for a purpose and that we should never leave the world as we found it, we should always strive to make a positive change.

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Women are not one-dimensional, we come in different shapes and sizes, and we are all equally beautiful.

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There's something about home that you just can't find anywhere else in the world.

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I think we are afraid to take up space. We are afraid to be amazing. As soon as that fear leaves us and we start building that confidence of being unapologetic about being great, then i think we can get into that space of having a lot of women leaders who are just fearless.

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I want children to look at me and see my face and I want them to see their faces reflected in mine.

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I knew that to live a fulfilling life I had to live a purposeful life; a life of service.

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If learners do not have a roof under which they can learn we are already setting them up for failure.

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Coming from the Eastern Cape, it's one of the most poverty-stricken provinces in the country, so whether it be in education or something else, I'd like to go directly there and help because I've seen it first-hand and experienced it.

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I grew up in a world where a woman who looks like me, with my kind of skin and my kind of hair, was never considered to be beautiful.

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My thing about gender-based violence is to bring in the men. Because people would ask women, 'What do you think we should do to fight this?' And I'm like, 'Why are you asking me?' I'm not the perpetrator in most of the instances so why don't we call on the people that are?

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Women are constantly being taught how to defend themselves against attack from men. I would like to shift the perception. I want to say that that responsibility should no longer rest on the shoulders of women alone.

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I want the men of our nation to stand and take a stand against gender based violence.

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One minute I was a PR intern, the next I was Miss South Africa.

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Society has been conditioned for a very long time to see beauty as something that's been westernised.

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I never realised how overwhelming it could be to be loved by people who don't even know you.

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Since sixth grade, I've been learning that the climate is deteriorating and the planet is dying, and it is up to us to keep our planet safe.

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I think as a black woman, we have a lot of colorism going on around us, and we have a lot of racism as well.

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I'm happy to see people being fearless and finally knowing that their voices mean something and that they stand for something.

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