My mom helped me. I was very shy growing up, but my shyness sort of manifested in a big personality.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSSAnd it acting was exciting to me. And scary.
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I’ve always been a curious thinker. And now, as an adult, I can articulate it.
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This is a couple that actually loves, respects & appreciates each other.
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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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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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And it acting was exciting to me. And scary.
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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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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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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.
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I want to be awake. I want to choose kindness, live & let live. I want joy, gratitude, and peace today.
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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 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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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’m trying to find my own version of what makes me feel beautiful.
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I hope they look at me and think, ‘That lady looks like she accepts herself’.
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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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