Tyra Banks Quotes

Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself. You've got to learn to accept the fool in you as well as the part that's got it goin' on.

Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic, erotic women. Why can't we be the sexy All-American girl next door?

Believe it or not, I just really know how to pose well. It took me five years to learn what my best angles are.

[On
Adrianne Curry's complaints that she did not receive what was promised her as the winner of
America's Next Top Model.] I have an invested interest in all the girls. I take Adrianne's struggles to bed with me at night. Adrianne's problem was that she went to Europe to try to make it and nobody knew who she was there. So it was like starting over. But after a girl leaves the show it's really up to her to be aggressive and try to succeed.

I'm a perfectionist. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it's OK if there are flaws here and there.