Iman Quotes

Someday I want to have my own clothing line, perfume and makeup line.

Make Up For Ever has foundation options that work for me - and everyone.

I want to develop a small make-up line myself. I want to combine all the things that I love and just create them the way I want them to be.

I would never like to endorse a fairness cream. I believe in natural beauty.

I can't stand when girls come to me and say they want to be a model, but they can't tell me who the top three photographers are in the world. They can't tell me who the top five biggest models are or name three cosmetics companies. They can't even name the top fashion magazines! You have to get it together and know your stuff.

There's competition among women everywhere you go. But back home, we understand that you can look like a variety of things and still be from the same culture. What I'm saying is that I've never felt like I was a light-skinned black woman. Never felt that way because we shared the same culture back home.

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.

Every day is different. I am constantly creating, whether that be for my own YouTube channel and social networks or my businesses like FAWN (For all Women's Network) - a women's lifestyle network on YouTube that I founded/produce; em michelle phan (my cosmetics line with L'Oreal); or Ipsy (a beauty sampling service I co-founded in 2011).

Every woman deserves to look fashionable, whether a size 2 or 22.

Madam Walker's legacy lives in her philanthropy as well as in an amazing line of hair care products.

I want to see designers capitalize on a beauty that is not only white. I need them to stop acting like beautiful black and brown women do not exist.

Our goal at Huda Beauty is to inspire anyone and everyone to create their own idea of beautiful with all of the products we offer.

We shouldn't be discriminating against each other. The whole 'light skin versus dark skin' is an idea we need to break down.

As one of the pioneers of modern hair care and cosmetics, Madam Walker is still an inspiration to a lot of people going into the business.

I've always had trouble finding makeup in darker shades.

I fell into makeup by accident, but I found my love for it, and once I realized that I could actually turn it into a huge business, that's when I started taking it a little bit more seriously, but it's always something that I knew could be something.

Dark skin women are so beautiful and I feel like people forget. Real talk.

Being a part of the Dark and Lovely family is an honor. As a dark and lovely girl, I love what they stand for, and I love that they make products for women of color.

It's wonderful that newer brands such as Fenty are making clear statements about being for all skin tones.

I definitely think the beauty industry is wising up. We are seeing a lot more representation and different people.

Fashion week is not an episode of 'Girls' or 'Friends,' where I'm OK that there is not a black person in sight because I honestly believe these characters don't come into contact with - therefore don't have - any black friends. No, in the case of Fashion week, it feels wrong.

I'm obsessed with the Fenty beauty line. It's like, finally, women of color get good makeup.

I would love to do more modeling. I would love to do anything really, mainstream, and help to create, I guess, a feeling of acceptance for people who are different and not look at them like they're freaks or whatever.

I've never bothered about my color.

I consider myself a realist who wants to stand up for women's voices, not when they try to be the same, but when they stand up for who we are and what we see and how important it is that our voice is heard.