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1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

Nothing goes to windward like a 747.

Tracee Ellis Ross

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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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  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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  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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  My mom helped me. I was very shy growing up, but my shyness sort of manifested in a big personality.

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  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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  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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  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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  I’m trying to find my own version of what makes me feel beautiful.

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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.

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  One of the things I’ve realized is how portable God is. No really, He’s everywhere!

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  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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  Throughout high school, I was obsessed with magazines. I used to just comb through them and plaster things on my wall.

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  In some of the darkest and hardest moments, there is always a part of me that is okay. And I can always access that part of me.

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  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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  My bathroom is filled with hair and makeup stuff and I play with it all the time. What the real lesson is, is that you can own your own sense of beauty. It doesn’t have to be something you get from somewhere else.

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  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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