I eat in the same philosophy that I live with: joyfully! Tracee Ellis Ross More Quotes by Tracee Ellis Ross More Quotes From Tracee Ellis Ross 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 positive-thinking learning inspirational 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 space knowing philosophy 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 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 embrace hair people 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 accepting and-love trying 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 love-is beautiful needs When you feel happy, you look beautiful. Tracee Ellis Ross you-look-beautiful beautiful looks Differences in experience, points of view and opinions aren't what pulls us apart. It's what pulls us together. Tracee Ellis Ross views inspirational life I hope they look at me and think, 'That lady looks like she accepts herself'. Tracee Ellis Ross accepting looks thinking 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 okay hardest moments Wisdom means to choose now what will make sense later. Tracee Ellis Ross make-sense mean We all, as women, need to continue to change our gaze from how we are seen to how we are seeing. Tracee Ellis Ross need-a-change seeing needs 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 wish house beautiful I like to choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear. Tracee Ellis Ross judgment curiosity compassion 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 makeup real hair 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 blessed mother I'm a really big believer in self care. One of the ways I nourish my soul is I eat the way I live my life - joyfully. Tracee Ellis Ross care soul self I'm trying to find my own version of what makes me feel beautiful. Tracee Ellis Ross feels trying beautiful 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 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 personality hair
