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One of the things I’ve realized is how portable God is. No really, He’s everywhere!

Tracee Ellis Ross

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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Follow Heart Myself Pieces Sing Specific Track
The two things that I thought were really interesting about this character [Bow] for me were that she actually loved her husband, and he loved her. The comedy was not coming from the fact that they hated each other. Which is what television couples are usually based on.
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Couple Husband Interest Love Myself Thinking
When I’m not working, I spend a lot of time on my hair. When it’s time for my hair to get some rest, I either wear it in a ponytail, bun or my favorite “milkmaid” braid.
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Hairs Myself Style Time Work
It was when I realized I needed to stop trying to be somebody else and be myself, that I actually started to own, accept and love what I had.
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Acceptance Myself Need Start Stop
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
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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Hairs Life Myself Question
I think our culture promotes fear and shame.
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Culture Fear Promote Shame Thinking
I hope they look at me and think, ‘That lady looks like she accepts herself’.
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Acceptance Hope Myself Thinking
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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Art Feeling Mirror Myself Strange Time
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
There is a way to be a woman, ask for what we deserve and be able to negotiate.
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Deserve Negotiate Way Woman
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
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
[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
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
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

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