Zozibini Tunzi Quotes

We live in a culture where European beauty standards are dominant.

I think society perpetuates a lot of mixed messages about what it means to be beautiful for all women, but especially for black women and women of color.

I was not considered beautiful at all. Really. And this is what all models say. But I'm still not considered that beautiful in my country. I don't know the beauty ideal where I come from - but it's not me.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

Not one person would admit that they didn't want me to wear a bikini because of their aesthetic preference - a preference that is shaped by our cultural perceptions of what is and isn't beautiful.

I feel fortunate that I'm not a beauty. I'm not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There are fewer parts.

If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.

You cannot say that one woman is 'more beautiful' than another, though people always do. It's so ridiculous to say that.

Back in England, a girl with thick black hair, dusky skin and big brown eyes will turn heads. It is vice versa in India.

I look like that in the morning: my hair's all greasy - it's not, 'Hey, look at the babe of the band!' I hate that kind of thing, the way women are always pushed forward as beauties... it's very easy: you can make the ugliest pig look lovely in a photograph.

Beauty has always been an element of discussion for black women, whether or not we were the ones having the conversation.

But you weren't born expecting that kind of beauty in everyone, all the time. You just got programmed into thinking anything else is ugly.

I especially want to change the way we as Latinas see our beauty. I feel that there is a misinterpretation of what we're supposed to look like.

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.

I really like where Tony Robbins says that we're all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it's true.

Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful.

When I was growing up, one or two girls were beautiful, but it was not an aspiration, right?

I have a book out called 'The Beauty Equation' and it discusses how off track we have gone in considering beauty.

For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin.

Part of what I have to represent is an alternative to this perverted fashion industry concept of what beauty is.

I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.

I'm not against beauty; it just sounds boring to me.

Beauty judgements are many and while we think that light skin women have no judgements to deal with. There is this filmmaker I love and respect and I really wanted to work with, once told me 'You are too fair to be in my movies.' And then I have also heard 'You are too pretty to play this part.'

My husband didn't want me to wear any black hairstyles. Nicole Kidman was his standard of beauty.