black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I was spoiled when I worked in the magazine world. Fashion closets are heaven and I seem to model my organization after a fashion closet.

Tracee Ellis Ross

I sometimes think to myself, you’re not going to meet a new friend of any kind at home in front of the TV with your DVR. As much as it’s great, and there are so many good shows on TV, and I have great books that I’m reading, get out and interact with people.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS

Home Interact Kind Myself Reading Thinking
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.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS

Believe Big Care Life Myself
And it acting was exciting to me. And scary.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS

Act Excitement Myself Scare
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.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS

Day Inspirational Learning Myself Terrify
After college, I shot a pilot for a show on Lifetime, which was basically House of Style for a TV lover. I think I got paid $1,500, and I was like, “Mom, I’m moving out! I made it!” I did two seasons of that, but I felt like a talking head and wanted to do more.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS

College Lover Myself Paid Season Thinking
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.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS

Explore Funny Sharp Topic Weight
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.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS

Dreams Freedom Myself Time Treasure Wild
Nothing goes to windward like a 747.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS

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

Appearance Oneself Stop Talk Time
When you feel happy, you look beautiful.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS

Happiness Yourself
My mom helped me. I was very shy growing up, but my shyness sort of manifested in a big personality.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS

Growth Manifestation Mom Personality Shy
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.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS

Hairs Myself Style Time Work
My mom didn’t adhere to any of those typical rules. She woke us up for school every morning, and was there at dinner or would call at bedtime. She never left for longer than a week. She recorded while we were sleeping.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS

Mom Morning Myself Record Rule Sleep
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.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS

Beautiful Desire Home Ourselves Pledge Remember Sacred
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.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS

Audience Drive Myself Photography Realize
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.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS

Hairs Life Myself Question

I was spoiled when I worked in the magazine world. Fashion closets are heaven and I seem to model my organization after a fashion closet.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I was spoiled when I worked in the magazine world. Fashion closets are heaven and I seem to model my organization after a fashion closet.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Tracee Ellis Ross Quotes