And it acting was exciting to me. And scary.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSSNothing goes to windward like a 747.
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My mom helped me. I was very shy growing up, but my shyness sort of manifested in a big personality.
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Nothing goes to windward like a 747.
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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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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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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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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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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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I hope they look at me and think, ‘That lady looks like she accepts herself’.
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There is a way to be a woman, ask for what we deserve and be able to negotiate.
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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?
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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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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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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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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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