Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" What's really great about social media is we have tremendous access, and there's a wealth of information about the people that we admire online. "

Franchesca Ramsey

Related Quotes:

" With 'Decoded,' the goal is to just keep pushing forward and challenging ourselves to tackle important subjects in creative and funny ways. "

Franchesca Ramsey

" For whatever reason, illiteracy continues to plague the racist troll community. "

Franchesca Ramsey

" I'm embarrassed to admit that I thought the world was ending my junior year of high school after a dye job reacted badly with my perm and left me with a sparse and burnt up hairline. Even though I went natural a few years later, my edges never seemed to recover. "

Franchesca Ramsey

" YouTube is an amazing platform to talk about social issues because it gives people the ability to tell their own stories and reach audience around the world who may otherwise never be exposed to these people and conversations. "

Franchesca Ramsey

" I can recall an instance where I was in a meeting at work giving a presentation in front of my board of directors. I was taking questions at the end and someone asks, 'Is that your hair real?' The man then reached out and started stroking my hair. It was completely bizarre to me. "

Franchesca Ramsey

" Self-care is really about taking care of you and focusing on feeling good about yourself - mind and body. "

Franchesca Ramsey

" I have been talking about social issues on YouTube for a long time now. I think it's very important in terms of being able to reach people around the world and people who have never been exposed to certain topics or are maybe misinformed about certain things. "

Franchesca Ramsey

" You create content because you love it, not necessarily because you're looking for fame or know what it will potentially lead to. "

Franchesca Ramsey

" I was looking for help with styling my hair and was really struggling to find it, and I have very much been of the mind that if you see a need for something, and you can create it yourself, then go for it, so I started creating content around beauty. "

Franchesca Ramsey

" I create videos for my YouTube channel Chescaleigh and for 'Decoded,' a series with MTV. "

Franchesca Ramsey

" It's important to understand you can't remove the historical context of racially charged stereotypes or slurs as much as we like to pretend that we can. "

Franchesca Ramsey

" My consciousness is a process, and that includes my relationship with my husband. His being white doesn't make me any less black or invested in black issues, the same way him being a man doesn't make me any less of a feminist. "

Franchesca Ramsey

" The truth is that the performative nature of social media can turn even the simplest conversations into a WWE style cage match with emojis and Internet slang taking the place of pratfalls and over the top costumes. "

Franchesca Ramsey

" Social media, unfortunately, just makes it a lot easier to be jealous. It sets up false expectations of reality, so it's really easy to look at someone else's life online and assume that they have everything going great for them and that their life is perfect. "

Franchesca Ramsey

" My ultimate goal is to make people laugh and make them think, which isn't always an easy task. "

Franchesca Ramsey

" 'Stop playing the victim.' - unless you've been cast in a community theater production of 'Law & Order: SVU,' I'm not sure why anyone would choose to play victim. "

Franchesca Ramsey

" I'm, like, not a science person at all. "

Franchesca Ramsey

" People that are not happy in their offline life tend to turn to trolling to fill the void. Oftentimes, the people saying racist things do not even necessarily believe in what they are saying. They are just looking for attention they do not get in real life. When you keep that in mind, it is easier to avoid indulging those people all together. "

Franchesca Ramsey

" Growing up, I was constantly labeled an 'oreo' by my black peers because of my proper speech and 'valley girl accent.' "

Franchesca Ramsey

" The Internet has been so good to me; I see its potential to help other people. "

Franchesca Ramsey

" For me, social media isn't just about connecting with friends and sharing photos; it's a bigger, more tangled web that's led me to jobs working in television, speaking gigs around the country, and it's even helped me land my first book deal! "

Franchesca Ramsey

" It's important to take time away from the Internet as much as possible. For me, I love working out, and my husband and I do it together in the mornings! And it's really our time to check in with each other, but it's also our time to really not think about work or what's happening on the Internet. "

Franchesca Ramsey

" Self-esteem doesn't have to just be about the way you look; it can be about your talents and passions. All of those things can build someone's confidence and show them that they have self worth and they are important. "

Franchesca Ramsey

" For me, at least with my parents, I feel that they wanted me to have all the opportunities that they did not have, and for them, that meant going to private school. "

Franchesca Ramsey

" For me, like, my goal has never been, quote, unquote, 'mainstream success.' I've just always wanted to work in entertainment. "

Franchesca Ramsey

" I think that if you stay positive and remain positive, you can definitely achieve the things you set out to. "

Franchesca Ramsey

" I always make sure to moisturize my hair. I love natural oils, coconut oil. Moisture is one thing you can never go wrong with. "

Franchesca Ramsey

" I think society perpetuates a lot of mixed messages about what it means to be beautiful for all women, but especially for black women and women of color. "

Franchesca Ramsey

" The Internet is a blessing and a curse. I mean, it's a place where lots of people can express themselves, which is amazing, but it's a place where a lot of people can express themselves that probably should keep those expressions to themselves. "

Franchesca Ramsey

" Oftentimes people say to me, 'Oh I didn't know you could do so much with locs until I saw your videos or I saw photos of you at events.' So whenever I hear that people have been really inspired to experiment with their hair or their look because of me, it's very flattering and really cool. "

Franchesca Ramsey