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Tracee Ellis Ross Quotes

born 1972 United States

Tracee Joy Silberstein (October 29, 1972), known professionally as Tracee Ellis Ross, is an American actress. She is known for her lead roles in the television series Girlfriends (2000–2008) and Black-ish (2014–2022) receiving nominations for five Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the latter.

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But then when you hit high school you start interacting with the patriarchy.

It’s been a hard-earned journey of self-discovery and self-acceptance.

But what I would prefer is that I’m the poster child for living my life on my terms. And that there’s a version of that for everyone.

I want to be in a relationship with myself as I am. I don’t want to be fighting with an image that I put out that I can’t keep up with.

I’ve always been a person who speaks up. I can’t help it. Sometimes the practice for me is – perhaps the exercise today is to not speak up.

I don’t live my life for other people.

It’s actually a real honour to get older. Not everybody has that honour, with everything going on in this country, with all of the violence and the children that don’t get to live that long…

People don’t want to be told that what they’re doing might not be the right thing or might not make everybody happy. But I am somebody who – I don’t just go along to get along.

I didn’t see enough examples of different versions of how a woman can find happiness and joy and power and sensuality, sexuality, all of that, without it being through the lens of how I’m seen by a man.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Tracee Ellis Ross (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.