116 Quotes by Alek Wek

Education is the key to the future.

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

We need to do everything we can to protect the health and welfare of children around the world, but fortunately, it's getting easier to provide things like medication and care.

London is like my second home. I've still got friends there from school and from when I first started in the modelling business - people such as Karen Elson, Jasmine Guinness, Jade Parfitt.

I'm an artist at heart.

When my friends talk about childhood, I've never heard of any cartoons or TV they remember. The only thing we share is Michael Jackson. That's how far his music travelled - to a remote village on the other side of the world.

War tore my family apart.

I grew up in southern Sudan, one of nine children. Our life was simple but very happy.

I used to have nightmares about the civil war when I got to England at ages 14 to 15. It took me some years to get over that.