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" 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. "

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" 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

Choices

My Life

Good

" Keeping the facts differentiated from the fantasy is incredibly helpful in gathering your information as you discover if a person is a match for you. "

" Keep in mind that diversity does not just mean black. It means all of it - age, weight, gender. "

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

" In my late 20s, I realized that I had a very clear social conscience and strong opinions about things like diversity, equality, and education, and while I tried to become more politically literate, I just couldn't catch on. It felt like I had walked into a movie that had already started, and no one would explain what had happened. "

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

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

" I'm attracted to bold women - I collect them. I met one of my best friends when we both were about 22 and working at 'Mirabella' magazine. I was wearing this blue dress I had borrowed from my mom, and I didn't know I had deodorant lines all over it until my friend signaled to me. "

" Having been in the business for a while, I never like to look forward. You kind of enjoy what's happening while it's happening and leave the rest up to God, the angels, the trees, the stars - whatever you want to call it. "

" I just really strongly promote pushing against this culture of perfection. I mean, I'm sorry, for me, Spanx don't feel good. I've tried one of those waist-trainer things on - that hurt like the bejesus. "

" 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. "

" I think it's possible to have a vision for your life that goes beyond any circumstance of anything that you've ever seen, and I encourage people to do that. But I don't think that any of us can do that in a vacuum. "

" What I think is exciting is that, to a certain extent, there is a revolution happening where black women are owning their own beauty, despite the standard of beauty that in the past has not had space for it. "

" Every two months, I'll get a trim, and every two years, I'll get a cut. And my night ritual is that I go to sleep. I don't wrap my hair, I don't bun my hair, I don't do crap! "

Tracee Ellis Ross

Sleep

Years

" 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

Kind

Start

" 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. "

" Clothing started as an armor for me. It was one of the ways that I protected myself from the world. It evolved into a form of creative expression. "

Tracee Ellis Ross

Creative

Expression

" There is no right way to do life. "

" 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. "

" It is important to me to take care of my skin. In general I don't like to wear foundation; I'm not a fan of the look. I like my skin fresh and natural enough so my freckles show through. "

Tracee Ellis Ross

Take Care

Care

" I've never felt like I was in my mother's shadow. If anything, I felt like I was in her embrace. "

" I cook naked, and I walk around naked. I'm very comfortable with my body. "

" I think culturally, even if you just talk about it in context, the standard of beauty has not included women of color. Period. Not just black women. If you are not a certain thing, there has not been space for you. "

" I'm toned, but I'm not cut. I like a little jiggle! "

Tracee Ellis Ross

Toned

Cut

" I loved being a redhead! I always wanted to try it. I was obsessed with Lucille Ball growing up. I really wanted to try it but I always thought that doing it would ruin my hair. "

" There are things about my body that I don't love, but I'm not trying to look perfect every day - I'm trying to look like me! "

Tracee Ellis Ross

Look

Love

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "