The most inspiring piece of advice I've gotten is simply to persevere. My mom taught me to always keep going no matter what from an early age. When it feels too difficult to push forward, I always remind myself, 'This too shall pass,' and then I redouble my efforts.

Traveling around Ethiopia, I saw dozens of abandoned textile factories. People kept asking me to help them find work. So I thought I could make use of my experience in fashion to commercialize their products outside of Ethiopia.

When a woman has her first child in places like Africa, they're really young. They can be 12, 13,14, so their frames are really small, and they're usually malnourished.

Take good care of your skin and hydrate. If you have good skin, everything else will fall into place.

It's one thing to donate money. It's a whole other thing to give an opportunity for someone to make his own money.

In a hundred years, how do you want the world to be? Everybody should get together to make the world a better place.

There's a saying in Africa: To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.