Top 98 Quotes by Alek Wek

Leaving southern Sudan as a child was terrifying. It was 1985, and my family and I were trying to escape to Khartoum, the capital in the North, to safety.

Don't focus on negative things; focus on the positive, and you will flourish.

South Sudanese people are rich like the soil; they just need a little water, and they will grow.

The beauty of reading is that it lets you travel in a way you could never know.

For me, it always goes back to what my mother taught me and my sisters. That all women are beautiful, and we should embrace each other.

In restaurants in my Brooklyn neighborhood, I always ask for a doggie bag to bring the leftovers home.

For me, you have to have some kind of modesty.

War tore my family apart.

Restaurants serve huge portions on even huger platters, and people are tempted to eat too much.

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