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This woman [Bow] was not simply a reflection of who her husband was. She was her own whole self. And even if we weren’t exploring life through her eyes, when we did see her it was clear that she had a full life.

Tracee Ellis Ross

And it acting was exciting to me. And scary.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS

Act Excitement Myself Scare
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.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS

Embrace Finding Hairs People Work
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
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
One of the things I’ve realized is how portable God is. No really, He’s everywhere!
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS

God Oneself Realize Thinking
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.
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Mom Morning Myself Record Rule Sleep
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’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.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS

Blessing Empowerment Existence Mom Woman
I like to choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.
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Choice Compassionate Curiosity Fear Myself
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 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
This is a couple that actually loves, respects & appreciates each other.
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Appreciate Couple Each Other Love
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.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS

Couple Husband Interest Love Myself Thinking
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
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
[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.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS

Writing

This woman [Bow] was not simply a reflection of who her husband was. She was her own whole self. And even if we weren’t exploring life through her eyes, when we did see her it was clear that she had a full life.

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This woman [Bow] was not simply a reflection of who her husband was. She was her own whole self. And even if we weren’t exploring life through her eyes, when we did see her it was clear that she had a full life.

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