“Life is a flight of stairs. There’s no point taking the lift – you just have to go step by step.”

- Oumou Sy. Senegalese Fashion Designer and founder of Semaine Internationale de la Mode de Dakar (SIMOD) aka International Dakar Fashion Week.

The quote by Sy (often called Senegal’s Queen of Couture) is from an interview with ARISE Magazine, issue 17.

“You gotta take it upon yourself in order to survive. You gotta take it upon yourself and love yourself enough to say ‘what I do is worth something. There’s value in it.”

- Taz Arnold. In an interview with StyleLikeU.

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you’ve got that, the rest really comes from it.

- Diana Vreeland.

“Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way.

Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.”

- Leontyne Price, Legendary American Soprano with honors including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 19 Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts and the Kennedy Center Honors etc.

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