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Tracee Ellis Ross Quotes

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?’

– Tracee Ellis Ross

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

– Tracee Ellis Ross

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.

– Tracee Ellis Ross

My mom had beautiful clothes. My mom is elegant; my mom is glamorous. But my mom is also really real, and I grew up with a mother who had babies crawling on her head and spitting up on her when she was wearing gorgeous, expensive things, and it was never an issue.

– Tracee Ellis Ross

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.

– Tracee Ellis Ross

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

– Tracee Ellis Ross

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.

– Tracee Ellis Ross

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.’

– Tracee Ellis Ross

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

– Tracee Ellis Ross

For me, it really is about the self-acceptance… the more time that I spend really accepting and allowing myself to be exactly where I am, the faster it is I move towards what I wanna be doing.

– Tracee Ellis Ross

So about this Fierce and Fearless award, honestly, I am often afraid. I was terrified when I lost my voice. But I’ve come to understand and listen to the fear. I walk towards it. I lean into it to find the information and things that it has to teach me – unless it says run, and then I run.

– Tracee Ellis Ross

We as black people are not a monolithic bunch. We are not all the same, and neither are women. Instead, we are all individuals who have these extraordinary stories to tell and share with each other that will enrich all of our lives and help us all become more ourselves and better people.

– Tracee Ellis Ross

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.

– Tracee Ellis Ross

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.

– Tracee Ellis Ross

I think that complicated, nuanced, deep, heavy – that’s the place to go. That’s what makes a great show. That’s what all of us deal with in life.

– Tracee Ellis Ross

I don’t always feel fierce and fearless, but I do feel like I’m a rock star at being human.

– Tracee Ellis Ross

I eat in the same philosophy that I live with: joyfully!

– Tracee Ellis Ross

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.

– Tracee Ellis Ross

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.

– Tracee Ellis Ross

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