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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.

Tracee Ellis Ross

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
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
[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
Wisdom means to choose now what will make sense later.
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Choice Willing Wisdom
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
When you feel happy, you look beautiful.
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Happiness Yourself
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
I like to choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.
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Choice Compassionate Curiosity Fear Myself
I think our culture promotes fear and shame.
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Culture Fear Promote Shame Thinking
I’m a really big believer in self care. One of the ways I nourish my soul is I eat the way I live my life – joyfully.
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Believe Big Care Life Myself
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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Need Ourselves See Woman
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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Embrace Finding Hairs People Work
After college, I shot a pilot for a show on Lifetime, which was basically House of Style for a TV lover. I think I got paid $1,500, and I was like, “Mom, I’m moving out! I made it!” I did two seasons of that, but I felt like a talking head and wanted to do more.
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College Lover Myself Paid Season Thinking
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
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
Nothing goes to windward like a 747.
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Special Wind

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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