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Tracee Ellis Ross

Tracee Ellis Ross (born Tracee Joy Silberstein; October 29, 1972) is an American actress, model, comedian, and television host, best known for her lead role as Joan Clayton in the comedy series Girlfriends (2000–2008) and Dr. Rainbow Johnson in the comedy series Black-ish (2014–present).

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I like to choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.

Choose, Compassion, Curiosity, Judgment, Like

I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me.

Day, Inspirational, Learning, Positive Thinking, Terrify

In some of the darkest and hardest moments, there is always a part of me that is okay. And I can always access that part of me.

Darkest, Hardest, Moments, Okay

Black-ish is really a show about an American family and these are some of the topics that come up - for all of us, in different ways - and we get to see how this family is walking through it.

Black, Different, Topics, Walking, Way

If I'm going to show cleavage or chest then I don't show leg. I show one thing. If I show leg then everything else is covered up.

Cleavage, Covered, Covered Up, Everything, Legs, Show

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.

Buns, Hair, Ponytails, Rest, Time, Wear

Nothing goes to windward like a 747.

747, Like, Nothing, Sailing, Windward

Throughout high school, I was obsessed with magazines. I used to just comb through them and plaster things on my wall.

Comb, Magazines, School, Things, Wall

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.

Blessed, Diana, Mom, Mother, Road

Wisdom means to choose now what will make sense later.

Choose, Make, Make Sense, Mean, Sense, Wisdom

I doubted Black-ish , and I'll tell you why. Because it doesn't matter if a writer wrote it for you. He could've written it with you in mind. But TV is a collaborative art. It involves producers, networks, studios, and many people signing off on you. And a lot of times there are deals in place - actors with studios that they're looking for shows for.

Art, Black, Networks, People, Tell, Times

I was very shy growing up. My shyness manifested as a big personality, as opposed to the wallflower personality. It's been a journey getting comfortable in my skin. I've worked on trying to find the authentic balance between the bravado of my personality that was sort of a defense and the truth within my bigness.

Big, Comfortable, Growing Up, Journey, Personality, Truth

Why am I beating my hair up? Because I want it to look like something that it isn't? These are questions that I've been pondering my whole life.

Hair, Looks, Want, Questions, Whole

I'm a really big believer in self care. One of the ways I nourish my soul is I eat the way I live my life - joyfully.

Believer, Big, Care, Nourish, Self, Soul

The two things that I thought were really interesting about this character [Bow] for me were that she actually loved her husband, and he loved her. The comedy was not coming from the fact that they hated each other. Which is what television couples are usually based on.

Character, Couple, Husband, Interesting, Loved, Usually

Just embrace your hair! I really feel like I am not an advocate for people doing what I do. I'm an advocate for people discovering and finding what works for them.

Embrace, Finding, Hair, People

One of the photographers was like, "Can you stop talking and try to look sexy for a minute?"

Sexy, Talking, Trying, Look, Stop

I felt like it was a courageous show [Black-ish] from the beginning. We are a black family - we're not a family that happens to be black. But the show is not even about us being black. The show is about us being a family. That is groundbreaking - on TV, the black characters either happen to be black or they're the "black character," where everything they say is about being black. I think that's the genius.

Black, Character, Family, Happen, Think, Thinking

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.

Beautiful, Desire, House, Nature, Wish, Womanhood

We all, as women, need to continue to change our gaze from how we are seen to how we are seeing.

Continue, Gaze, Need A Change, Needs, Seeing, Seen

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