Quotes
"It was hard to do the nude shots because I'm very shy."
"School bored me. Being educated and being intelligent are two different things. I thought I was smart enough. And I wanted to be an entertainer. I stopped going to school as a way of saying I was mature, a way of saying I was going to choose who I was going to become." -Daily News, December 3, 1997
"If I'd thought about it too much, I probably wouldn't have done it. But paying attention to obstacles wasn't going to help me, because, being African in France, I'd heard everything. It's hurtful when people dismiss you like that, but I've never paid too much attention to it. I always thought that it should be for me to make a decision to give up, not for someone else to tell me I couldn't make it."
