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Somehow [Kenya Bariss] has figured out how to explore these very weighty, sticky, sharp topics, and still be funny and not make fun of the topic.

Tracee Ellis Ross

Here is my wish and my desire and my pledge as well: that we remember our true nature and our womanhood. That we own and know that we are more than our bodies and yet our bodies are these sacred, beautiful, rhythmic houses for us.
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Beautiful Desire Home Ourselves Pledge Remember Sacred
[Black-ish creator] Kenya Bariss wrote on Girlfriends. We’ve been friendly since then. He sent me [the pilot] and said, “I wrote it for you.” But I know what that means in this industry.
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Writing
Nothing goes to windward like a 747.
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Special Wind
One of the photographers was like, “Can you stop talking and try to look sexy for a minute?”
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Appearance Oneself Stop Talk Time
It would drive the photographers crazy because I would giggle and tell jokes. I was gregarious, and looking back, I realize I had a captive audience.
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Audience Drive Myself Photography Realize
My generation is one of the first generations of “choiceful” women – women who have actually had the choice of how they architect their lives – and I don’t think shame should have any place in that. But as that generation, you get cuts and bruises.
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Bruise Generation Hurt Live Myself Place Shame Thinking Woman
Just embrace your hair! I really feel like I am not an advocate for people doing what I do. I’m an advocate for people discovering and finding what works for them.
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Embrace Finding Hairs People Work
Sometimes I feel like art is supposed to mirror life, but strangely it’s as if art is trying to catch up to life, to a certain extent?
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Art Feeling Mirror Myself Strange Time
I sometimes think to myself, you’re not going to meet a new friend of any kind at home in front of the TV with your DVR. As much as it’s great, and there are so many good shows on TV, and I have great books that I’m reading, get out and interact with people.
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Home Interact Kind Myself Reading Thinking
The two things that I thought were really interesting about this character [Bow] for me were that she actually loved her husband, and he loved her. The comedy was not coming from the fact that they hated each other. Which is what television couples are usually based on.
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Couple Husband Interest Love Myself Thinking
I think television is doing a better job than films in terms of representing people, but television is still not diverse.
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Better Diversity Myself Representation Television Thinking
Somehow [Kenya Bariss] has figured out how to explore these very weighty, sticky, sharp topics, and still be funny and not make fun of the topic.
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Explore Funny Sharp Topic Weight
I think our culture promotes fear and shame.
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Culture Fear Promote Shame Thinking
When you feel happy, you look beautiful.
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Happiness Yourself
If I’m going to show cleavage or chest then I don’t show leg. I show one thing. If I show leg then everything else is covered up.
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Choice Cover Fashion Myself Skin
I was spoiled when I worked in the magazine world. Fashion closets are heaven and I seem to model my organization after a fashion closet.
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Magazine Modeling Myself Organization Spoil Work

Somehow [Kenya Bariss] has figured out how to explore these very weighty, sticky, sharp topics, and still be funny and not make fun of the topic.

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