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.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSSIn 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.
More Tracee Ellis Ross Quotes
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There are a ton of foods that are great for you, that’s like an indulgence.
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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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Differences in experience, points of view and opinions aren’t what pulls us apart. It’s what pulls us together.
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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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When I’m not working, I spend a lot of time on my hair. When it’s time for my hair to get some rest, I either wear it in a ponytail, bun or my favorite “milkmaid” braid.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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When you feel happy, you look beautiful.
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I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me.
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I’m trying to find my own version of what makes me feel beautiful.
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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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