There's no excuse for rudeness.
— Tyra Banks
We are often told we can't have brains and beauty, and I really hope that my message is that you can put on that red lip and curl your hair and put on that power dress - you don't have to sacrifice one for the other.
I would love for models to be protected by a guild.
Moms, you are the first and most influential role model in your girl's life. Use that power.
As I look into the future, I see radical changes in both how people 'attain beauty,' and how the world perceives beauty. In general, I believe traditional beauty will be less valuable - and more uniqueness will be heralded.
I'm very human.
I look up to Martha Stewart, and I love that she has product lines that are true extensions of her brand.
I created 'America's Next Top Model' one-hundred percent. I was in my kitchen making tea one morning, and I looked out the window, and the idea popped into my head. I wanted it to be 'American Idol' meets 'Ford Supermodel of the Year' meets 'The Real World.'
I think the rise of Asian models is an absolutely beautiful thing.
When I was not connected with someone, I didn't get asked out that often.
I'm not led by money, because if that's the case, I can throw my name on everything and have a million-dollar company.
I have worn fake hair since I was 17 years old.
I know the pain of somebody who's too thin and the pain of somebody that people say is too big.
Years ago, when I first started wearing hair extensions, I would get mail from young girls, or young girls would come up to me and they would say, 'Tyra you have the most beautiful hair, like I could never grow hair like that!' And I would say 'Child, this is a weave!'
I have a lot of success and make a good living, but after while, you start going 'Why? Why are you doing all this?'
I try to keep my private life kind of private.
When I was a young girl, I lost a lot of weight over one summer - involuntarily - and was just really depressed and sad. There was nothing I could do to gain weight. I would look in the mirror and call myself disgusting every day.
I don't want to use the term 'plus-size,' because, to me, what the hell is that? It just doesn't have a positive connotation to it. I tend to not use it.
Believe it or not, I don't wake up looking like a supermodel.
On 'America's Next Top Model,' I mentor girls on television. When that TV goes off, I actually mentor other girls in the modeling industry - girls that have not been on 'Top Model,' but who appear in 'Vogue' worldwide.
I've wanted to adopt since I was eight, nine years old. I really do think I will.
With 'America's Next Top Model,' I've always cast girls who the industry might call 'plus size' but I like to call 'fiercely real.' That was always important to me.
There have been top supermodels in the past that weren't as tall as the industry demands, like fashion icon Kate Moss.
Whenever someone says I'm the next Oprah, I always respond, 'Child, there's only one Mahogany, and only one Oprah.' There are no others.
I have a lot of bad days.
Now I know that I should take better care of myself when I'm under an intense deadline, or else my body is gonna act in certain ways that are not good.
I wear my age with pride.
The one thing I like about being a celebrity more than anything is being able to get into any restaurant I want.
I always feel great when I don't have clothes on.
Who would have thought that the girl who was forced to go to the hospital because she's so skinny would one day be called too fat?
'America's Next Top Model' is not a bunch of Barbies - it's a lot of girls that are atypically beautiful.
I don't have that 'OMG, I gotta get married' thing! If it happens, it happens, but it's never been like, 'Oooo, I need to do that!'
I went from being very popular and the head of the clique in the sixth grade to having, like, kid depression in the seventh grade. Not leaving the house. Not looking people in the eye... My body made me feel bad at everything.
Stop saying these negative things about yourself. Look in the mirror and find something about yourself that's positive and celebrate that!
I think we should be unapologetic that we excel - and look beautiful while doing it.
Blue and green eyes will be so common that dark brown will become the rare and newly desired eye color.
Even when I was a teen model, I didn't think it was fair that I had to enter the acting world to get insurance.
I don't have to have a child come from my womb to have a connection. Children that are already born are beautiful to me. I can definitely be a mother to them.
When modeling agencies were saying that I was too big and gaining weight, my mom said, 'OK, we're going to discuss what they're saying over pizza, and we're going to plan the future of your career which doesn't involve you having to be skinny.'
You don't have to have a ring on your finger to say, 'I love you.'
I don't have the best self esteem; mine wavers month to month, but I know how to pick myself up.
What I don't like to see is when models of different races come in and out of fashion.
My freshman year, I ran for student class president and lost. The next year, I ran for student class vice president, and I won.
What keeps me up at night? Sometimes it's day-to-day work stuff. And a lot of the times, it's, 'Am I making the wrong decisions in terms of reaching young women?'
My natural hair texture is very kinky.
Flaws are awesome - so, 'flawsome!' I love making up a word.
It is important for women to feel beautiful when she looks in the mirror, and I tell women, 'If you don't feel beautiful, find one thing that you can look in that mirror and say, 'That is beautiful.'
One of the big, most underlying messages for me is celebrating beauty that is not typical.
I wish I was harder; I wish I didn't care so much about being the nice girl all the time because a lot of the time people can take kindness for weakness, so I wish I had a little bit more 'oomph' in me.
I think one of the biggest things that affects young women is when they hear their mothers using fat talk.
