Zozibini Tunzi quotes
We should be teaching young girls to take up space. Nothing is as important as taking up space in society and cementing yourself.
Zozibini Tunzi quotes
I am inspired by the likes of Steve Biko, Nelson Mandela, Princess Diana and those of their calibre. They understood fully what it means to be selfless and to stand for something.
Zozibini Tunzi quotes
The platform Miss Universe has given me has exceeded my wildest expectations.
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We need to dismantle the systems that were built on racism, that were built on the backs of black people.
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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.
Zozibini Tunzi quotes
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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Women are not one-dimensional, we come in different shapes and sizes, and we are all equally beautiful.
Zozibini Tunzi quotes
As Miss South Africa, I cannot wait to make a contribution to important social causes.
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Society has been conditioned for a very long time to see beauty as something that's been westernised.
Zozibini Tunzi quotes
I always knew I had to find a way to be a catalyst for positive change.
Zora Neale Hurston quotes
I am her friend, and her tongue is in my mouth. I can speak her sentiments for her, though Ethel Waters can do very well indeed in speaking for herself.
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I do not share the gloomy thought that Negroes in America are doomed to be stomped out bodaciously, nor even shackled to the bottom of things. Of course some of them will be tromped out, and some will always be at the bottom, keeping company with other bottom-folks.
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The inference is, that God has restated the superiority of the West. God always does like that when a thousand white people surround one dark one. Dark people are always "bad" when they do not admit the Divine Plan like that. A certain Javanese man who sticks up for Indonesian Independence is very lowdown by the papers, and suspected of being a Japanese puppet.
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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief.
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My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
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Perhaps love is a compelling necessity imposed on man by God that has something to do with suffering
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The very best place to be in all the world is St. Mary's parish, Jamaica. And the best spot in St. Mary's is Port Maria, though all of St. Mary's is fine. Old Maker put himself to a lot of trouble to make that part of the island of Jamaica, for everything there is perfect.
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Zora Neale Hurston quotes
I had hundreds of books under my skin already. Not selected reading, all of it. Some of it could be called trashy. I had been through Nick Carter, Horatio Alger, Bertha M. Clay and the whole slew of dime novelists in addition to some really constructive reading. I do not regret the trash. It has harmed me in no way. It was a help, because acquiring the reading habit early is the important thing. Taste and natural development will take care of the rest later on.
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