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Sometime in my second year at Brown [University], I took an acting class. And the lightbulb went off for me. I fell in love with it. I realized that everything I was afraid of about myself, all my fears, could be used in that world.

Tracee Ellis Ross

There are a ton of foods that are great for you, that’s like an indulgence.
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Delicious Food Indulge Yourself
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
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
Nothing goes to windward like a 747.
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Special Wind
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
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
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 am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me.
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Day Inspirational Learning Myself Terrify
When you feel happy, you look beautiful.
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Happiness Yourself
I think our culture promotes fear and shame.
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Culture Fear Promote Shame Thinking
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
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
And it acting was exciting to me. And scary.
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Act Excitement Myself Scare
I’ve always been a curious thinker. And now, as an adult, I can articulate it.
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Adult Curiosity Myself Thinking
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
Black-ish is really a show about an American family and these are some of the topics that come up – for all of us, in different ways – and we get to see how this family is walking through it.
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Family Journey See Topic Walk

Sometime in my second year at Brown [University], I took an acting class. And the lightbulb went off for me. I fell in love with it. I realized that everything I was afraid of about myself, all my fears, could be used in that world.

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Sometime in my second year at Brown [University], I took an acting class. And the lightbulb went off for me. I fell in love with it. I realized that everything I was afraid of about myself, all my fears, could be used in that world.

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