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I want to be awake. I want to choose kindness, live & let live. I want joy, gratitude, and peace today.

Tracee Ellis Ross

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Tracee Ellis Ross
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: October 29
Actor
Actress
Film Actor
Model
Television Actor
LA
California
Tracee Joy Silberstein
Tracy Ellis Ross
Live
Awake
Gratitude
Kindness
Choose
Joy
Peace
Today

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My mom helped me. I was very shy growing up, but my shyness sort of manifested in a big personality.
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One of the things I've realized is how portable God is. No really, He's everywhere!
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I've always been a curious thinker. And now, as an adult, I can articulate it.
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I was spoiled when I worked in the magazine world. Fashion closets are heaven and I seem to model my organization after a fashion closet.
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I was recently watching Rihanna on the Billboard awards, and I was like, My God, she's incredible! And then I looked up her age [28]. She's always been talented. She's always been a star. But when you see her, she's becoming herself. It's age that happens. That's what I respond to.
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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.
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The clothing, the makeup, the freedom of expression in [the models'] bodies. It was Linda and Christy and Naomi at the time. So I modeled before college.
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There are a ton of foods that are great for you, that's like an indulgence.
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I hope they look at me and think, 'That lady looks like she accepts herself'.
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This is a couple that actually loves, respects & appreciates each other.
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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.
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[Black-ish creator] Kenya Bariss wrote on Girlfriends. We've been friendly since then. He sent me [the pilot] and said, I wrote it for you. But I know what that means in this industry.
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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.
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Somehow [Kenya Bariss] has figured out how to explore these very weighty, sticky, sharp topics, and still be funny and not make fun of the topic.
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My generation is one of the first generations of choiceful women - women who have actually had the choice of how they architect their lives - and I don't think shame should have any place in that. But as that generation, you get cuts and bruises.
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It would drive the photographers crazy because I would giggle and tell jokes. I was gregarious, and looking back, I realize I had a captive audience.
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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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My mom would leave her job, and there would be throngs of people screaming and banging on our car. I come from a very private family, but I was born into a public family.
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I was cast in a movie [originally] called Mr. Spreckman's Boat, starring Marcia Gay Harden and Jennifer Connelly. I felt like an actress. Both of them have won Oscars - maybe that means I might one day.
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Sometimes I feel like art is supposed to mirror life, but strangely it's as if art is trying to catch up to life, to a certain extent?
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