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Tracee Ellis Ross

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
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
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
Sometimes I feel like art is supposed to mirror life, but strangely it’s as if art is trying to catch up to life, to a certain extent?
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Art Feeling Mirror Myself Strange Time
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.
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Magazine Modeling Myself Organization Spoil Work
One of the photographers was like, “Can you stop talking and try to look sexy for a minute?”
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Appearance Oneself Stop Talk Time
The clothing, the makeup, the freedom of expression in [the models’] bodies. It was Linda and Christy and Naomi at the time. So I modeled before college.
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Clothing Expression Make Up Modeling Myself
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.
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Dreams Freedom Myself Time Treasure Wild
[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.
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Writing
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.
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Beautiful Fantastic Girl Market Myself
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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Access Darkness Hard Time Myself
Nothing goes to windward like a 747.
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Special Wind
I’m trying to find my own version of what makes me feel beautiful.
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Beautiful Feeling Finding Trying Version
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.
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Follow Heart Myself Pieces Sing Specific Track
There is a way to be a woman, ask for what we deserve and be able to negotiate.
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Deserve Negotiate Way Woman
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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Acting Class Fall Fear Love Myself Time World

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