A Quote by Mo'ne Davis

I never thought I'd be a role model at this age. I just have to be myself. — © Mo'ne Davis
I never thought I'd be a role model at this age. I just have to be myself.

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Mo'ne Davis
Born: 2001
I never thought that I'd be a role model. Everyone kind of just made me a role model, and I hated that.
I never thought I'd be a role model this early. It caught me off-guard, but it says a lot about how I was brought up, what my values have been, and how my parents raised me. It's very flattering that being myself is enough to be a role model.
It's nice if I am called a role model, because I never thought that I would be a role model for anyone else.
I would never say, "I'm going to do these things in a video to be a role model so people make me a role model." I want to be myself.
I never thought I would be a role model for anything. But a role model for fun, I can do that.
I never thought of myself as a role model, but I've had so many messages from girls, women, mothers saying I was an inspiration.
I always wanted to be a teacher or wanted to do something with food. But modeling, I just never thought I could do it myself, really, ever. I still have trouble calling myself a model. I just never thought I was tall enough or skinny enough.
I've always thought of myself as a role model even before being a 'celebrity.' I've always been doing charity work and volunteering in the community since I was 8, so when you do that, I think you just assume that role when you put yourself out there.
What we'd consider a positive role model, I think it's impossible to actually be a role model. You'll have your flaws or defects of character, regardless. You just speak like a positive role model, and that's just something that you're being conscious of, and you make the decision, "I want to say positive things."
I never wanted to model myself on a female singer, which tells you a lot about my character. I didn't have a female role model. There just wasn't anybody around. I played with the boys and beat them at their own game.
I didn't have a role model. My role model was Michael Jordan. Bad role model for an Indian dude... I didn't have anyone who looked like me. And by the time I was old enough to have what could have been a role model, they were my peers. Aziz Ansari is my peer. Kal Penn is my peer.
Since I'm not a fashion model, there's a limit to how nice I can make myself. I don't regard myself as an ugly person, but I don't think of myself as someone who would choose to be a model. I'm somebody who might be, I'd like to think, a role model for people who want to become lawyers.
I like being a role model - people have told me that I am a role model for empowered women, but I don't see myself that way.
Yes, I see myself as a role model. And as a role model, I have to behave in a certain way.
If I were to think of myself as a role model, I would say that it's really important to realize when you are a role model and to be willing to give advice, share how you do things.
I'm not a role model, nor have I ever tried to be a role model. The only thing about me as a role model is I've managed to stay here and be working and survive. For 40 years.
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