I don't want to be known as the black model. I want to be recognized as Chanel Iman, a personality.

I want to do television, film, music and designing. I want to do it all!

It takes time to be who you really want to be. It doesn't happen overnight.

People called me 'Iman the black model'. In my country, we're all black, so nobody called somebody else black. It was foreign to my ears.

I'm my own person, and I want people to know me for who I am.

I'm thinking of slowing down on modeling and branching out to other things. I want to pursue some new and old dreams and start making them happen.