If you can survive in the desert, you survive anywhere. I know more than anything life in desert. You can tell by looking at the dirt how long ago it rained, how hard it rained, how much water came through. You can by looking at a plant, a tree, from an animal's look. I can read the desert like I read my hand.

Mama tied a blindfold over my eyes. The next thing I felt my flesh was being cut away. I heard the blade sawing back and forth through my skin. The pain between my legs was so intense I wished I would die.

Don’t do to your daughters what has been done to you! They are perfect and beautiful.

I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be.

I don't know what a supermodel is. If they call me that, I might have to punch them. It's just so vain and so unreal.

FGM breaches all human rights and has no place in any 21st century society.

Fashion is fun, ridiculously fun. But it's base and it's wrong. You're not doing anything good for the world. You're just saying, 'Buy it, buy it, buy it.