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" Everyone's always like, 'Be your best self!' And that drives me bananas, because when you're not, it makes you feel really bad. "

Tracee Ellis Ross

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" I have started using the expression 'compassionate activism': It's about keeping my heart open so that I can understand the point of view of the other person. "

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" There's no way you can go home and learn lines, because you need to go home and sleep. So I've figured out systems. I order two lunches so I can eat dinner before I leave work, so when I get home, I can just go to bed. "

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" My natural disposition is pretty joyful, but you know, I have bad days and sad moments like anybody else. "

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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" The national treasure that is Diana Ross is a dim light compared with who she is as a mother. My mom paved the way not only for my career but also for who I am as a human being. "

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" We should all do what we can in our daily lives to remember that we are glorious and powerful. "

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" I think we're as happy as we make up our minds to be. "

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" Red carpet is a little bit scary. It's not about expression. It's about taking a pretty picture in a really weird, awkward way, with so many people watching. It's a glamorous part of the job, but it requires its own kind of courage. "

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" 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. "

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" 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! "

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" My goal is not necessarily to be an inspiration. I think, if anything, I want to continue to be inspired and to continue to grow as a person. "

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" 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. "

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" 'Blackish' is set in current times. So, doing a police brutality episode in current times when kids are watching our show, it gives them an access point to have these kinds of conversations as family. "

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" I was watching the Nina Simone documentary alone in my room, and I said out loud to myself, 'Why do we not know that this woman is beauty? She is beauty! Why did no one tell me this growing up? Why was her name not next to 'beauty' in the dictionary?' "

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" I used to think 40 was old. Now I think, 'Hey, 40's hot!' "

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" I don't do what I do to get nominated. I do what I do because I love it. "

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" I think my biggest tip - and I consider it a part of my beauty routine - is getting my sleep, without a doubt. I do a true eight hours. "

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" I have a few rules on lipstick... I don't wear gloss because I can't talk properly. I like matte lipsticks; I like an opaque shade that you can't see my lip color through at all. "

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" In this day and age, I ask anyone I date right away: 'Are you married? Are you in a relationship with anyone? Does anyone think they're in a relationship with you?' And by the way, if someone says, 'Yes, I am dating other people,' that's not necessarily a deal breaker. But you have to communicate it, not hide it. "

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" I have a vocabulary in clothing. It's like a whole language. "

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" I'm baffled by the people who say, 'I'm just not going to vote.' "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" Lily Tomlin was one of the early comedy greats who influenced my courage to be the person I am. "

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" 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. "

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" Julia Louis-Dreyfus is like a hero, to have played different comedic roles. She gets sexier, funnier, and better with time. "

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" Politics is tricky for me. For most of my life, I didn't think it applied to me. "

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" For so many years, I was trying to beat my hair into submission, trying to get it to look like someone else's hair, and I didn't know how. I remember going through a phase where I even put beer in my hair, because I was told that would make it smooth and curly. "

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