44 Quotes by Zozibini Tunzi

Beauty is subjective, so people's opinions don't really matter.

We should be teaching young girls to take up space. Nothing is as important as taking up space in society and cementing yourself.

You're not taught to be ambitious as a woman. And so when you are, sometimes you shy away from it or you're scared of voicing your opinions.

I grew up in a world where a woman who looks like me, with my kind of skin and my kind of hair, was never considered to be beautiful.

I want children to look at me and see my face and I want them to see their faces reflected in mine.

I think the most important thing... is leadership. It's something that has been lacking in young women and girls for a very long time, not because we don't want to but because of what society has labeled women to be. I think we are the most powerful beings in the world and that we should be given every opportunity.

Women are not one-dimensional, we come in different shapes and sizes, and we are all equally beautiful.

It was a question I got asked often from my friends when they heard I had entered Miss S.A. - 'will you get a weave?' I always said I haven't changed myself before so why should I now change for a competition?

I am inspired by the likes of Steve Biko, Nelson Mandela, Princess Diana and those of their calibre. They understood fully what it means to be selfless and to stand for something.