“In Ghana, most of the women I know do not identify as sexy, and the re...” — Philomena Kwao Quote

“In Ghana, most of the women I know do not identify as sexy, and the reason may be cultural. With imported beauty standards from the West, it seems that many African women feel they need to be fair and slim to be beautiful.”

“I think that we need to allow words to be words. If my self-esteem and my self-worth linger on words that are used to describe me, then you have a problem in itself.”

“I think that the plus-size industry has been great with size diversity, but it hasn't really been great for skin tone diversity.”

“Being proud of who we are as people is more important than cutting into ourselves to create this false idea of beauty.”

“Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.”

“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.”