I’m trying to find my own version of what makes me feel beautiful.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSSThe 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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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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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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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 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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Wisdom means to choose now what will make sense later.
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I like to choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.
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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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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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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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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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There are a ton of foods that are great for you, that’s like an indulgence.
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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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Differences in experience, points of view and opinions aren’t what pulls us apart. It’s what pulls us together.
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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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I’ve always been a curious thinker. And now, as an adult, I can articulate it.
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