Tracee Ellis Ross on hairs
Tracee Ellis Ross53 quotes“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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Tracee Ellis RossTracee Ellis Ross There is a way to be a woman, ask for what we deserve and be able to negotiate.
Tracee Ellis RossTracee Ellis Ross 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 RossTracee Ellis Ross 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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Tracee Ellis RossTracee Ellis Ross 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.
Tracee Ellis RossTracee Ellis Ross 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.
Tracee Ellis RossTracee Ellis Ross Wisdom means to choose now what will make sense later.
Tracee Ellis RossTracee Ellis Ross I want to be awake. I want to choose kindness, live & let live. I want joy, gratitude, and peace today.
Tracee Ellis RossTracee Ellis Ross I think television is doing a better job than films in terms of representing people, but television is still not diverse.
Tracee Ellis RossTracee Ellis Ross 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.
Tracee Ellis RossTracee 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.
Tracee Ellis RossTracee Ellis Ross 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.
Tracee Ellis RossTracee Ellis Ross 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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