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Tracee Ellis Ross Quotes
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Tracee Ellis Ross
American
Actress
Born:
Oct 29
,
1972
Hair
Me
Myself
People
Think
You
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I need to see my own beauty and to continue to be reminded that I am enough, that I am worthy of love without effort, that I am beautiful, that the texture of my hair and that the shape of my curves, the size of my lips, the color of my skin, and the feelings that I have are all worthy and okay.
Tracee Ellis Ross
Love
Beautiful
Hair
Feelings
Beauty
Own
Skin
Enough
Okay
Worthy
See
My Own
Color
Shape
Reminded
Without
Am
Continue
Texture
Effort
Lips
Size
Curves
Need
As I get older, the more I stay focused on the acceptance of myself and others, and choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.
Tracee Ellis Ross
Myself
Acceptance
Fear
Compassion
Judgment
Older
Others
Focused
Stay
Stay Focused
More
Over
Curiosity
Get
Choose
I feel like our culture is so good at pulling other people down and being so judgmental, but there's space for all of us to be who we are. There's space for us to celebrate each other and root for each other and not take each other down.
Tracee Ellis Ross
Good
Celebrate
Culture
People
Space
Down
Other
Our
Take
Feel
Like
Judgmental
Being
Us
Root
Who
Each
Pulling
Human rights, race relations, gender politics, health care, and foreign policy - it's a lot to keep track of, and yet all of these things affect us in our daily lives. Making sense of everything requires meticulous unpacking of feelings, delicate navigation of social norms, and a community of love to help along the way.
Tracee Ellis Ross
Love
Politics
Health
Daily
Rights
Care
Gender
Feelings
Sense
Community
Human Rights
Relations
Our
Everything
Way
Delicate
Along
Track
Policy
Health Care
Making
Foreign
Foreign Policy
Affect
Meticulous
Lot
Norms
Human
Race
Social
Race Relations
Us
Requires
Help
Navigation
Keep
Lives
Daily Lives
Things
I don't really talk about my personal life. It's a strange and funny and weird thing. Sometimes you have a conversation with someone and the paparazzi snaps a picture of you and people decide you're dating. If I try to answer everything people say, I would be up all night.
Tracee Ellis Ross
Life
Funny
You
Conversation
Strange
People
Sometimes
Try
Picture
Personal Life
Everything
Paparazzi
Say
All Night
Would
Would-Be
People Say
About
Someone
Dating
Weird
Weird Thing
Talk
Answer
Snaps
Up
Personal
Decide
Really
Thing
Night
I don't want to feel shamed into making a choice about my physical appearance or my body... or even about the choices I make about my life. I want to be feel empowered and inspired because they feel good to me.
Tracee Ellis Ross
Life
Good
Me
Feel Good
My Life
Physical
Physical Appearance
About
Shamed
Inspired
Feel
Make
Empowered
Because
Making
Want
Choice
Choices
Body
Appearance
Even
I don't always feel fierce and fearless, but I do feel like I'm a rock star at being human.
Tracee Ellis Ross
Fearless
Feel
Like
Rock
Always
Rock Star
Human
Being
Being Human
Fierce
Star
I'm trying to find a little joy and happiness, a lot of giggles - and maybe some pretty shoes.
Tracee Ellis Ross
Happiness
Joy
Shoes
Giggles
Find
Some
Pretty
Lot
Trying
Maybe
Little
Career-wise, there are so many things where you don't get what you think you want. I've had to make space for, 'Do I let that debilitate me and make me feel bad about myself? And make me feel like I need to change myself in some way?' Because I think changing myself is very different from growing and learning.
Tracee Ellis Ross
Myself
Me
You
Change
Learning
Space
Think
Changing
Way
Bad
Some
About
Had
Feel
Like
Make
Because
Very
Get
Where
Different
Want
Many
Growing
Things
Need
I'm extremely blessed to have the extraordinary mother that I have, and I don't mean Diana Ross, I mean the mother. My mom paved a road that didn't exist, as did Oprah.
Tracee Ellis Ross
Mom
Mother
Blessed
Extraordinary
Extremely
Road
Diana
Diana Ross
Exist
Oprah
Did
Mean
Paved
I'm baffled by the people who say, 'I'm just not going to vote.'
Tracee Ellis Ross
Vote
People
Say
Baffled
Going
Just
Who
By The People
I've heard people say, 'Why do you have to do a show that's called 'Black Girls Rock'?' or 'Why is there an expression called 'black girl magic'?' You know, when you say, 'Save the dolphins,' you don't mean, 'I don't like whales.' That's just not the way it works!
Tracee Ellis Ross
You
People
Black
Girl
Way
Say
People Say
Magic
Like
Know
Rock
Heard
Dolphins
Whales
Just
Mean
Show
Works
Expression
Why
Save
We live in a culture where people are constantly telling us how to get what we want, and within that message is, 'You need to be something other than you are.'
Tracee Ellis Ross
You
Culture
People
Live
Other
Telling
Constantly
Something
Message
Within
How
Than
Get
Where
Want
Us
Need
Because of my unique experience as my mom's child, the beginning of my journey was more about me trying to figure out who I was on my own. My mom is one of the greatest moms and so supportive of all my siblings and of all of us being who we are, and not who she wanted us to be.
Tracee Ellis Ross
Mom
Journey
Me
Experience
My Journey
Beginning
Own
Out
About
My Own
More
Supportive
She
Because
Greatest
Child
Trying
Being
Wanted
Us
Figure
Who
Unique
Unique Experience
Moms
Sibling
I always had a thin frame, but when you hit 40 and eat french fries three days in a row, it's like, 'What happened?'
Tracee Ellis Ross
You
Three
Frame
Eat
Had
Days
Like
French
French Fries
Always
Fries
Hit
Happened
Thin
Row
If wearing a weave is what makes you feel beautiful, if wearing a wig, if wearing your hair pink, blue, that's what matters, in my opinion.
Tracee Ellis Ross
Beautiful
You
Hair
Matters
Wig
Wearing
Weave
Feel
Makes
Opinion
Pink
Blue
In My Opinion
Your
Lily Tomlin was one of the early comedy greats who influenced my courage to be the person I am.
Tracee Ellis Ross
Courage
Comedy
Lily
Am
Greats
Person
Influenced
Who
Early
I eat in the same philosophy that I live with: joyfully!
Tracee Ellis Ross
Live
Philosophy
Eat
Joyfully
Same
I think it's huge that I'm wearing my natural hair texture on ABC in prime time. As Dr. Rainbow Johnson on 'Black-ish,' I think my hair is part of the reality of this woman's life. She has four children and is an anesthesiologist and a wife. She doesn't have a lot of time to fuss with beauty, so her look is pretty simple.
Tracee Ellis Ross
Life
Time
Woman
Natural
Reality
Simple
Wife
Hair
Beauty
Think
Fuss
ABC
Wearing
Pretty
Johnson
Part
Prime
Prime Time
Look
She
Lot
Huge
Texture
Children
Her
Rainbow
Dr
Four
I listen to my body. Some days all I want is a good steak and others, I crave veggies and quinoa.
Tracee Ellis Ross
Good
Others
Some
Steak
Days
Listen
Want
Crave
Body
My goal is to make space for my selfhood. All of it. All of me, not just the parts I like or think that others like but all of it.
Tracee Ellis Ross
Me
Space
Think
Others
Like
Make
Parts
Goal
Just
I'm always touched by people's different stories of who they are and why they made the choices that they made. I feel so empowered by the story behind the person.
Tracee Ellis Ross
People
Made
Touched
Feel
Empowered
Always
Person
Behind
Different
Stories
Story
Choices
Who
Why
I grew up on the ragged edge of self-acceptance, where I was holding on to it, but it was easy to fall off. But as I found my way inside myself, I've been able to accept my own hair, my own shape.
Tracee Ellis Ross
Myself
Hair
Edge
Fall
Own
Holding
Way
Easy
Inside
Able
My Own
Shape
Self-Acceptance
Accept
Been
Off
Up
Where
Grew
Holding On
Ragged
Found
There is no right way to do life.
Tracee Ellis Ross
Life
Way
Right Way
Right
So about this Fierce and Fearless award, honestly, I am often afraid. I was terrified when I lost my voice. But I've come to understand and listen to the fear. I walk towards it. I lean into it to find the information and things that it has to teach me - unless it says run, and then I run.
Tracee Ellis Ross
Me
Fear
Walk
Lost
Honestly
Unless
Says
Run
Find
Fearless
About
Voice
Towards
Come
Lean
Terrified
Understand
Am
Listen
Often
Afraid
Information
Fierce
Then
Teach
Award
Things
I used to literally collect friends that had hair like me. And it would start like this: 'What kind of products do you use?'
Tracee Ellis Ross
Me
You
Hair
Collect
Kind
Would
Had
Like
Friends
Literally
Use
Used
Products
Start
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