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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.

Tracee Ellis Ross

I’ve always been a curious thinker. And now, as an adult, I can articulate it.
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Adult Curiosity 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
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
My mom helped me. I was very shy growing up, but my shyness sort of manifested in a big personality.
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Growth Manifestation Mom Personality Shy
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
This is a couple that actually loves, respects & appreciates each other.
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Appreciate Couple Each Other Love
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
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
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.
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Magazine Modeling Myself Organization Spoil Work
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
I don’t know that the stereotypical idea of what it is to be a child of somebody hugely famous necessarily comes into play in my life.
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Famous Huge Ideas Life Myself Necessary Play
I hope they look at me and think, ‘That lady looks like she accepts herself’.
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Acceptance Hope Myself Thinking
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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Access Darkness Hard Time Myself
This woman [Bow] was not simply a reflection of who her husband was. She was her own whole self. And even if we weren’t exploring life through her eyes, when we did see her it was clear that she had a full life.
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Explore Herself Husband Life Reflection Simplicity Woman
There are a ton of foods that are great for you, that’s like an indulgence.
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Delicious Food Indulge Yourself

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 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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