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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.

Tracee Ellis Ross

Differences in experience, points of view and opinions aren’t what pulls us apart. It’s what pulls us together.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS

Difference Experience Ourselves Point Togetherness View
Self-care of all kinds is a huge part of my life. I really encourage other women and other people to really put self-care – and that includes the beauty regime, how you eat, all of that – into your body.
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Body Care Encourage Kind Yourself
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
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
I’ve always been a curious thinker. And now, as an adult, I can articulate it.
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Adult Curiosity Myself Thinking
Wisdom means to choose now what will make sense later.
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Choice Willing Wisdom
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
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
I want to be awake. I want to choose kindness, live & let live. I want joy, gratitude, and peace today.
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Awakening Choice Day Gratitude Joy Kindness Peace
One of the things I’ve realized is how portable God is. No really, He’s everywhere!
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God Oneself Realize Thinking
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
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
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
The clothing, the makeup, the freedom of expression in [the models’] bodies. It was Linda and Christy and Naomi at the time. So I modeled before college.
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Clothing Expression Make Up Modeling Myself
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
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

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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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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