American - Actress | October 29, 1972 -
Using my voice to recognize and celebrate other women is a joy for me.
Tracee Ellis Ross
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I think, for me, my goal is to continue to be teachable. I can't see around corners, but I want to be able to walk enough in my life where I go around more corners than I ever thought I could go around.
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The experience of being a mixed person is all over the place - one of my best friends is Chinese and Italian; my other best friend is Lebanese and Trinidadian. The mix of heritage, culture or identity is something that our country is built on.
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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.'
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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.
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I'm trying to find a little joy and happiness, a lot of giggles - and maybe some pretty shoes.
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I used to think 40 was old. Now I think, 'Hey, 40's hot!'
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Keep in mind that diversity does not just mean black. It means all of it - age, weight, gender.
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There's a power in what we hold as artists, and part of that comes with responsibility... to share the human experience and really allow that to be seen.
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As a woman of color, we're raised to know we have to be twice as good.
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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 cook naked, and I walk around naked. I'm very comfortable with my body.
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