Tracee Ellis Ross quotes

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.
-- Tracee Ellis Ross

#Inspirational #Hard Times #Space

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.
-- Tracee Ellis Ross

#Hair #People #Embrace

We as women need to change our gaze from HOW WE ARE 'SEEN' to HOW WE ARE 'SEEING'.
-- Tracee Ellis Ross

#Needs #Need A Change

This is a couple that actually loves, respects & appreciates each other.
-- Tracee Ellis Ross

#Couple #Appreciate #Love Respect

As a younger person, my philosophy was jump off a cliff. I realize now that there are stairs and elevators. 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 can even ask for help! Not feeling that I have to know everything, and that’s where the growth comes in, in the not knowing.
-- Tracee Ellis Ross

#Philosophy #Knowing #Space

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

#Gratitude #Kindness #Joy

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.
-- Tracee Ellis Ross

#Legs #Cleavage #Shows

Wisdom means to choose now what will make sense later.
-- Tracee Ellis Ross

#Mean #Make Sense

My bathroom is filled with hair and makeup stuff and I play with it all the time. What the real lesson is, is that you can own your own sense of beauty. It doesn't have to be something you get from somewhere else.
-- Tracee Ellis Ross

#Real #Makeup #Play

It was when I realized I needed to stop trying to be somebody else and be myself, that I actually started to own, accept and love what I had,
-- Tracee Ellis Ross

#Trying #And Love #Accepting

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

#Mom #Children #Sibling

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.
-- Tracee Ellis Ross

#Mom #Mother #Blessed

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

#Night #People #Dating

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

#Hair #Ponytails #Braids

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.
-- Tracee Ellis Ross

#Moments #Okay #Hardest

I just want to say this. I love being a woman. I love playing a woman. I love being a whole and full woman. I am more than my parts, and we all are. And we all, as women, need to continue to change our gaze from how we are seen to how we are seeing. We are full and beautiful women. And let us live in that.
-- Tracee Ellis Ross

#Beautiful #Love Is #Want

Differences in experience, points of view and opinions aren't what pulls us apart. It's what pulls us together.
-- Tracee Ellis Ross

#Inspirational #Life #Differences

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.
-- Tracee Ellis Ross

#Heart #Unique #Color

I hope they look at me and think, 'That lady looks like she accepts herself.'
-- Tracee Ellis Ross

#Thinking #Looks #Accepting

I was shy, but it came out in a big personality. My turning point was when I let my hair go naturally and I got contact lenses. I am really blind, by the way. I have these big eyes that don’t work!
-- Tracee Ellis Ross

#Eye #Hair #Personality

One of the things I've realized is how portable God is. No really, He's everywhere!
-- Tracee Ellis Ross

I'm trying to find my own version of what makes me feel beautiful.
-- Tracee Ellis Ross

#Beautiful #Trying #Feeling Beautiful

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.
-- Tracee Ellis Ross

#Fashion #Organization #Heaven

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.
-- Tracee Ellis Ross

#Growing Up #Journey #Personality

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

#Beautiful #House #Desire