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I think television is doing a better job than films in terms of representing people, but television is still not diverse.

Tracee Ellis Ross

My mom didn’t adhere to any of those typical rules. She woke us up for school every morning, and was there at dinner or would call at bedtime. She never left for longer than a week. She recorded while we were sleeping.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS

Mom Morning Myself Record Rule Sleep
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
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 buy what makes my heart sing. So, it’s not that I follow one specific track. It’s sort of what I like. I love colors. I love unique pieces. I love vintage clothing.
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Follow Heart Myself Pieces Sing Specific Track
It was when I realized I needed to stop trying to be somebody else and be myself, that I actually started to own, accept and love what I had.
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Acceptance Myself Need Start Stop
This is a couple that actually loves, respects & appreciates each other.
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Appreciate Couple Each Other Love
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
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
There are a ton of foods that are great for you, that’s like an indulgence.
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Delicious Food Indulge Yourself
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
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
When you feel happy, you look beautiful.
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Happiness Yourself
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
When I’m not working, I spend a lot of time on my hair. When it’s time for my hair to get some rest, I either wear it in a ponytail, bun or my favorite “milkmaid” braid.
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Hairs Myself Style Time Work
I’m extremely blessed to have the extraordinary mother that I have, and I don’t mean Diana Ross, I mean the mother. My mom paved a road that didn’t exist, as did Oprah.
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Blessing Empowerment Existence Mom Woman
Nothing goes to windward like a 747.
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Special Wind

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