Quotes by Tracee Ellis Ross

Tracee Ellis Ross

[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.

Black

Girlfriend

Mean

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.

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Different

Way

Differences in experience, points of view and opinions aren’t what pulls us apart. It’s what pulls us together.

Inspirational

Life

Views

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.

Inspirational

Learning

Positive Thinking

I buy what makes my heart sing. So, it’s not that I follow one specific track. It’s sort of what I like. I love colors. I love unique pieces. I love vintage clothing.

Color

Heart

Unique

I don’t have the luxury of not going to work when I don’t feel up to it. Most people don’t. On those days, I acknowledge I am feeling f-cking crappy, and I’m not at my best, and I still want to or need to keep walking forward. I have to do some of my best work on my worst days. I have to look pretty even when I don’t feel pretty. There’s a way to hold both things.

Feelings

People

Worst

I don’t know that the stereotypical idea of what it is to be a child of somebody hugely famous necessarily comes into play in my life.

Children

Ideas

Play

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

People

I hope they look at me and think, ‘That lady looks like she accepts herself’.

Accepting

Looks

Thinking

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

Compassion

Curiosity

Judgment

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Book

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Class

College

Color

Compassion

Crazy

Culture

Curiosity

Curious

Cutting

Different

Embrace

Expression

Eye

Fashion

Feelings

Feels

Frozen

Gay

Girl

Girlfriend

Gratitude

Growing Up

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Hardest

Heart

Heaven

Home

Husband

Ideas

Indulgence

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Joy

Judgment

Kindness

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Life

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Quotes by Tracee Ellis Ross

Tracee Ellis Ross

[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.

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.

Differences in experience, points of view and opinions aren’t what pulls us apart. It’s what pulls us together.

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.

I buy what makes my heart sing. So, it’s not that I follow one specific track. It’s sort of what I like. I love colors. I love unique pieces. I love vintage clothing.

I don’t know that the stereotypical idea of what it is to be a child of somebody hugely famous necessarily comes into play in my life.

I hope they look at me and think, ‘That lady looks like she accepts herself’.

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

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