Menu

Free Literature Study Guides
The Great Gatsby
Hamlet

Free Literature Study Guides
The Great Gatsby
Hamlet

Tracee Ellis Ross Quotes

What I know is I have only gotten better with age. I think I’m the sexiest I’ve ever been, and I’m almost 50. And I think of the other women who are in this age bracket and beyond, and I think, ‘why was there ever a message of counting us out?’ That seems absurd.

– Tracee Ellis Ross

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.

– Tracee Ellis Ross

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.

– Tracee Ellis Ross

I listen to my body. Some days all I want is a good steak and others, I crave veggies and quinoa.

– Tracee Ellis Ross

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

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

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

– Tracee Ellis Ross

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

– Tracee Ellis Ross

‘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.

– Tracee Ellis Ross

I feel like I’m on the inside for the first time. Inside the castle. I have an Emmy nomination!

– Tracee Ellis Ross

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.

– Tracee Ellis Ross

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.

– Tracee Ellis Ross

It is important for me to feel like myself on a red carpet – not the way somebody else thinks I should look.

– Tracee Ellis Ross

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

I’m baffled by the people who say, ‘I’m just not going to vote.’

– Tracee Ellis Ross

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

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

– Tracee Ellis Ross

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

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.

– Tracee Ellis Ross

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

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

There is no right way to do life.

– Tracee Ellis Ross

As a woman of color, we’re raised to know we have to be twice as good.

– Tracee Ellis Ross

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

– Tracee Ellis Ross

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.

– Tracee Ellis Ross

Using my voice to recognize and celebrate other women is a joy for me.

– Tracee Ellis Ross

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.

– Tracee Ellis Ross

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

Putting all your eggs in one basket has never worked for me. Personally, I find if I decide too quickly that someone is my match, I start to get a little nutty.

– Tracee Ellis Ross

I am a connoisseur of products. I check out everything, I try everything.

– Tracee Ellis Ross

- 1
- 2
- 3