Tracee Ellis Ross Quotes

I feel a responsibility to continue creating complex roles for black women, especially young black women.

America must be a nation in which its multiracial people are partners in power.

If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist.

I don't understand labels. I don't need anybody to tell me I'm Latina or black or anything else. I've played characters that were written for Caucasian females, I just want to be given the same consideration as everybody else, and so far that has been happening.

The only way you get to the goal of color blindness is to be color conscious along the way.

The challenge facing America in the next century will be the shaping, at long last, of a truly common public culture, one responsive to the long silenced cultures of color.

For me, I actively look for projects that showcase people of color.

In England, you feel like a member of the revolutionary guard the minute you even mention race. But I do think that the OscarsSoWhite phenomenon will have to reflect back on England. What people are essentially saying is that they want to see more diverse stories. It's not about putting three black people in the back of the shot.

It's important for youth, black youths particularly, to be able to fill in the blanks of themselves so they can know completely who they are, but also all the country to understand what this means: what the civil rights movement does to us as people. It is part of the journey that we must be on in order to become fully evolved human beings.

I am not the candidate of Black America, although I am black and proud. I am not the candidate of the woman's movement of this country, although I am a woman and I am equally proud of that.

I realize there is a paucity of African-Americans in my position. Everywhere I go, people say, 'Don't mess this up. Don't forget about us.' You feel a tremendous responsibility, not to take the black side of things but to make sure that side gets heard, because if I don't do it, who's going to do it?

I have to have a seat at the table. I have to have a say on how we, as African-Americans, are produced and depicted around the world. Along the way, I'll be very fair to white people.

I want to see designers capitalize on a beauty that is not only white. I need them to stop acting like beautiful black and brown women do not exist.

I love being a mixed-race woman in 2017. I feel part of something big. There's this understanding that we're all in it together.

Black girl stories aren't just for black girls: they're for everybody.

Asian-Americans are fighting for space and fighting for visibility and for acceptance.

Being a black woman in America and the world and in corporate situations is something to be celebrated.

Black History in 2019 and beyond is all about inclusivity.

Black is beautiful.

Intersectionality has given many advocates a way to frame their circumstances and to fight for their visibility and inclusion.

Latinos, Asians, African-Americans, women - we're all trying to find our place in this world of cinema and television and theater. And the great thing with comedy is that most of the time, you could be orange. It doesn't matter, as long you're funny.

I am for Obama, all the way. I don't support Obama just because he is a black man; I support him because he is an educated black man. He is making black people proud.

If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.

I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up.

Certainly we can end racism with love. We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis on racial distinction.