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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.

Tracee Ellis Ross

Differences in experience, points of view and opinions aren’t what pulls us apart. It’s what pulls us together.
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Difference Experience Ourselves Point Togetherness View
My mom helped me. I was very shy growing up, but my shyness sort of manifested in a big personality.
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Growth Manifestation Mom Personality Shy
I think our culture promotes fear and shame.
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Culture Fear Promote Shame Thinking
[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
I’m a really big believer in self care. One of the ways I nourish my soul is I eat the way I live my life – joyfully.
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Believe Big Care Life Myself
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
Why am I beating my hair up? Because I want it to look like something that it isn’t? These are questions that I’ve been pondering my whole life.
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Hairs Life Myself Question
We all, as women, need to continue to change our gaze from how we are seen to how we are seeing.
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Need Ourselves See Woman
Someone asked me recently, “Do you get sick of people asking you about your hair?” And the reason I don’t is because I actually feel like you could chronicle my journey of self-acceptance through my journey with my hair. It’s a badge of something bigger.
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Acceptance Hairs Journey Myself People Reason Sick
My mom would leave her job, and there would be throngs of people screaming and banging on our car. I come from a very private family, but I was born into a public family.
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Born Family Leave Myself People Scream
I don’t know that the stereotypical idea of what it is to be a child of somebody hugely famous necessarily comes into play in my life.
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Famous Huge Ideas Life Myself Necessary Play
There is a way to be a woman, ask for what we deserve and be able to negotiate.
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Deserve Negotiate Way Woman
I have to take some time to dream some new dreams. I feel like there’s a treasure hunt in front of me. A treasure hunt that is speckled with and seeded by a deep-rooted wild freedom.
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Dreams Freedom Myself Time Treasure Wild
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
After college, I shot a pilot for a show on Lifetime, which was basically House of Style for a TV lover. I think I got paid $1,500, and I was like, “Mom, I’m moving out! I made it!” I did two seasons of that, but I felt like a talking head and wanted to do more.
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College Lover Myself Paid Season Thinking
I’ve always been a curious thinker. And now, as an adult, I can articulate it.
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Adult Curiosity Myself Thinking

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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