black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Tracee Ellis Ross

I’m a farmer’s market girl, so if you go and get beautiful, fresh fruit, that’s local, and it hasn’t been frozen yet, it’s pretty fantastic.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS

Beautiful Fantastic Girl Market Myself
I was spoiled when I worked in the magazine world. Fashion closets are heaven and I seem to model my organization after a fashion closet.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS

Magazine Modeling Myself Organization Spoil Work
Wisdom means to choose now what will make sense later.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS

Choice Willing Wisdom
When you feel happy, you look beautiful.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS

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

Better Diversity Myself Representation Television Thinking
There is a way to be a woman, ask for what we deserve and be able to negotiate.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS

Deserve Negotiate Way Woman
I have to take some time to dream some new dreams. I feel like there’s a treasure hunt in front of me. A treasure hunt that is speckled with and seeded by a deep-rooted wild freedom.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS

Dreams Freedom Myself Time Treasure Wild
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.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS

Follow Heart Myself Pieces Sing Specific Track
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.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS

Bruise Generation Hurt Live Myself Place Shame Thinking Woman
I’m trying to find my own version of what makes me feel beautiful.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS

Beautiful Feeling Finding Trying Version
[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
I’ve always been a curious thinker. And now, as an adult, I can articulate it.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS

Adult Curiosity Myself Thinking
I hope they look at me and think, ‘That lady looks like she accepts herself’.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS

Acceptance Hope Myself Thinking
I’m a really big believer in self care. One of the ways I nourish my soul is I eat the way I live my life – joyfully.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS

Believe Big Care Life Myself
One of the photographers was like, “Can you stop talking and try to look sexy for a minute?”
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS

Appearance Oneself Stop Talk Time
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.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS

Access Darkness Hard Time Myself

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Tracee Ellis Ross Quotes