My bathroom is filled with hair and makeup stuff and I play with it all the time. What the real lesson is, is that you can own your own sense of beauty. It doesn’t have to be something you get from somewhere else.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSSI was spoiled when I worked in the magazine world. Fashion closets are heaven and I seem to model my organization after a fashion closet.
More Tracee Ellis Ross Quotes
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I’m trying to find my own version of what makes me feel beautiful.
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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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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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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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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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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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My mom helped me. I was very shy growing up, but my shyness sort of manifested in a big personality.
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Wisdom means to choose now what will make sense later.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Differences in experience, points of view and opinions aren’t what pulls us apart. It’s what pulls us together.
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