Tracee Ellis Ross Quotes

I'm 27. I feel like I get it. I'm OK with being sexy if I feel like it. Some days I'm brainy, some days I'm funny, some days I'm sexy, and sometimes, I just want to dance.

It used to bother me - having bigger, fuller brows. I even plucked them once so I'd fit in, but I hated them and couldn't wait for them to grow back. Now I embrace them. I realized the quirky things that make you different are what make you beautiful.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

I love the mixture that's in me. It makes me me. And that's why it's such a shame that people waste energy in denying who they are.

There's something to be said for embracing who you are.

I think that anybody coming out and saying, 'This is who I am, and let me show it to you...' is good for the world.

There's something beautiful in being who you are and being comfortable with whatever your voice is.

I truly believe that the privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

I am what I am.

I think for women, especially women of colour, hair has so much to do with our identity and our confidence levels. I've made a conscious choice after growing up and feeling insecure and trying to achieve this look that actually wasn't me, where I've finally stopped relaxing my hair and went back to my natural texture.

I'm really embracing that very out, very loud, very free persona that I am now but that I didn't get to be in high school.

The last step will be letting my hair go natural. That's when you'll know I'm free.

It took a while to grow the confidence to say, 'This is who I am, take it or leave it.'

I needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am

I've had so many moments where seeing other women be fully and truly and authentically themselves, and express that, has given me permission. Once you see it happening, you're like, "Oh, I have permission to do that, too."

One of the most important things you can accomplish is just being yourself.

Find your voice and don't be afraid to explore it.

When I came into this industry, I was never afraid to be myself.

What grows from our head is something that we should love. The larger society can love it or not, but it's not their decision to make.

I am who I am. I'm unique. I'm my own self.

I'm able to go out there, and I'm really able to be, like, unabashedly myself. And I want somebody who's young, who's struggling, who's not sure if it's OK if they are themselves to know that it's OK.

Kids will tell me 'oh I want to be like you when I grow up,' you know. I just thought 'nah, don't be like me, be like you,' because first of all they don't really know me but second of all I understand what they're trying to say but I just let them know - be like you.

Kids used to tell me I was weird all the time. When I got older, I wanted to embrace my name and I put it on everything. And I also wanted to embrace being weird.

It's not a hard job to be yourself.

A bunch of my fans have come up to me and said, 'Because of you, and because you came out, I have finally begun to accept myself.' That is infinitely incredible for me. I didn't expect to get to the point where I would own up to it within myself.