Tracee Ellis Ross Quotes

I don't like to make my life like a book.

I don't like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone's life is different, and everyone's journey is different.

I tell people for a long time, there are always other options in life. We have to do what we want.

There's no right one way to go through life.

I just want people to admit that there's no one way to live your life.

So the point is, I don't have a right to tell anybody what's right or wrong about their lives. Who am I to tell you at any given moment of the day what would be right for you?

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

I rarely tell anybody what they should be doing with their life.

I'm not an example for how people should live their lives. Never in my life would I ever set out to be an example for people on how to live their lives. If you need an example for how to live, then you just shouldn't have been born. Straight up.

If a person possesses any tolerable amount of common sense and experience, his own mode of laying out his existence is the best.

I'm born, and I die, but in between that, I can do whatever I want or have a strong opinion about something.

I want to be free to be any version of me I feel like being. I don't want to be McDonald's that serves the same food every time.

My style is that I have no style.

I want it to resonate: there's no rule for how to live your life. You can do things your own way.

I do know how life can go one way or another and that it's not all just black and white, and there are many different situations and twists and turns in life.

In the small remaining journey of life that I have left, I want to choose who I want to be with and to hang around.

A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.

There's no right way or wrong way to work. There's only your way.

I've always been obsessed about how people choose - or are destined - for the paths they take.

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.

'On the Road' completely changed the way I looked at what you could do with your life.

My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any god or any religion. Nor of any holy book or any priest. I have certainly not replaced their god. They are all a part of what I call my traveling circus.