- On how young people can avoid feeling overwhelmed by injustice: "There's literally injustice happening every second. It's intense and it's overwhelming, and I think a lot of young people are feeling that. But what do we do about it? All I can say is try to find a balance between doing the work and still not letting it destroy you as a person and destroy your hope and faith in humanity. It's allowing yourself to be angry enough to want to be motivated to do something, but not to where it breaks you down."
- On her debut Tommy x Zendaya show last Spring: "It was a celebration of the women who opened the door for me. Without what these women did in this fashion landscape, without Beverly Johnson, the first black woman to have a [American] Vogue cover, my Vogue cover doesn't exist. It's saying thank you, and it's also putting it in our minds that that's what we have to continue to do. That's the only way that doors are going to continue to be open — if we keep inviting people that look like us, and other people who don't look like us, to come through the door."
- On being motivated by the diversity of body types in her family for her Tommy x Zendaya collaborations: "That was my thing — I'm not going to make clothes my sister or my niece or any of the women in my family can't wear. A lot of the clothes were for tall people too. For my mom, this is the first time that she can wear pants and not get them altered — she's six feet four."
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