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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?

Tracee Ellis Ross

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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Choice Cover Fashion Myself Skin
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
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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Audience Drive Myself Photography Realize
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
Somehow [Kenya Bariss] has figured out how to explore these very weighty, sticky, sharp topics, and still be funny and not make fun of the topic.
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Explore Funny Sharp Topic Weight
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
I was shy, but it came out in a big personality. My turning point was when I let my hair go naturally and I got contact lenses. I am really blind, by the way. I have these big eyes that don’t work!
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Appearance Blind Eyes Myself Point Way Work
Someone asked me recently, “Do you get sick of people asking you about your hair?” And the reason I don’t is because I actually feel like you could chronicle my journey of self-acceptance through my journey with my hair. It’s a badge of something bigger.
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Acceptance Hairs Journey Myself People Reason Sick
Nothing goes to windward like a 747.
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Special Wind
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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Explore Herself Husband Life Reflection Simplicity Woman
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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Better Diversity Myself Representation Television Thinking
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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Magazine Myself Obsession Wall
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
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
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
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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Bruise Generation Hurt Live Myself Place Shame Thinking Woman

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