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I think our culture promotes fear and shame.

Tracee Ellis Ross

Here is my wish and my desire and my pledge as well: that we remember our true nature and our womanhood. That we own and know that we are more than our bodies and yet our bodies are these sacred, beautiful, rhythmic houses for us.
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Beautiful Desire Home Ourselves Pledge Remember Sacred
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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Day Inspirational Learning Myself Terrify
And it acting was exciting to me. And scary.
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Act Excitement Myself Scare
Black-ish is really a show about an American family and these are some of the topics that come up – for all of us, in different ways – and we get to see how this family is walking through it.
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Family Journey See Topic Walk
Wisdom means to choose now what will make sense later.
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Choice Willing Wisdom
When you feel happy, you look beautiful.
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Happiness Yourself
One of the photographers was like, “Can you stop talking and try to look sexy for a minute?”
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Appearance Oneself Stop Talk Time
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
Differences in experience, points of view and opinions aren’t what pulls us apart. It’s what pulls us together.
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Difference Experience Ourselves Point Togetherness View
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
I’m trying to find my own version of what makes me feel beautiful.
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Beautiful Feeling Finding Trying Version
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.
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Dreams Freedom Myself Time Treasure Wild
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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Acceptance Hairs Journey Myself People Reason Sick
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
Nothing goes to windward like a 747.
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Special Wind
I’ve always been a curious thinker. And now, as an adult, I can articulate it.
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Adult Curiosity Myself Thinking

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