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1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

Nothing goes to windward like a 747.

Tracee Ellis Ross

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  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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  I’m extremely blessed to have the extraordinary mother that I have, and I don’t mean Diana Ross, I mean the mother. My mom paved a road that didn’t exist, as did Oprah.

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  I like to choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.

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  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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  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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  Self-care of all kinds is a huge part of my life. I really encourage other women and other people to really put self-care – and that includes the beauty regime, how you eat, all of that – into your body.

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  I’ve always been a curious thinker. And now, as an adult, I can articulate it.

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  Wisdom means to choose now what will make sense later.

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  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.

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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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  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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  One of the photographers was like, “Can you stop talking and try to look sexy for a minute?”

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  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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  This is a couple that actually loves, respects & appreciates each other.

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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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  [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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