Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – everything she writes speaks to me. Her Ted talk, We Should All Be Feminists, inspired everything I do with Gurls Talk.
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Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them?Originally asked
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Bruno Tonioli
Italian choreographer
Oprah Winfrey. Considering the cards she was dealt at birth, what she has achieved is quite something.
Jacinda Ardern, the former New Zealand prime minister – for embodying a different, more compassionate politics.
Sadiq Khan
Mayor of London since 2016
Mo Farah represents everything that’s great about our country.
Pope Francis. He’s going with the original program. He may not be perfect, but he’s trying.
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For persevering, and being a good role model.
I wanted to be a cooker. Not a cook: I wanted to actually be the stove.
The whole of The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill.
Nothing. Everything’s got me to this point and I had to learn lots of things. Maybe I just wouldn’t have been so terrified all the time and I would have got up a bit earlier – I missed quite a few mornings.
They are already things I work on: routine and less sugar.
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