Becomes Quote by Amanda Gorman

I want to be someone who is a great representation of a black woman in Hollywood, a black woman in the entertainment industry.

— Kat Graham

I used to say in interviews that I don't necessarily want to be the first black woman or first model to do certain things;…

— Tyra Banks

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

— Alek Wek

When I first started in modeling, I went back to England, and it was really hard, because I would go around to the agencies…

— Jodie Turner-Smith

I don't want to be known as the black model. I want to be recognized as Chanel Iman, a personality.

— Chanel Iman

I look at modeling as something I'm doing for black people in general.

— Naomi Campbell

All I've ever wanted to be is a strong, powerful, beautiful black woman.

— Katherine Ryan

I'd like to be the first model who becomes a woman.

— Lauren Hutton

I definitely intend to create my own work in the future so that we don't have to keep saying we don't have work for…

— Lupita Nyong'o

I'd like to inspire Black girls to think: 'If she can do it, I can.'

— A. J. Odudu

I'm working to create a space where it feels easy to include and imagine black girls and make black girls like me the main…

— Marley Dias

It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was…

— Henry Louis Gates