I felt like it was a courageous show [Black-ish] from the beginning. We are a black family - we're not a family that happens to be black. But the show is not even about us being black. The show is… — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
There is a way to be a woman, ask for what we deserve and be able to negotiate. — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
I buy what makes my heart sing. So, it's not that I follow one specific track. It's sort of what I like. I love… — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
I don't really talk about my personal life. It's a strange and funny and weird thing. Sometimes you have a conversation with someone and… — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
I was cast in a movie [originally] called Mr. Spreckman's Boat, starring Marcia Gay Harden and Jennifer Connelly. I felt like an "actress." Both… — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
Differences in experience, points of view and opinions aren't what pulls us apart. It's what pulls us together. — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
It would drive the photographers crazy because I would giggle and tell jokes. I was gregarious, and looking back, I realize I had a… — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
The two things that I thought were really interesting about this character [Bow] for me were that she actually loved her husband, and he… — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
I hope they look at me and think, 'That lady looks like she accepts herself.' — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
Why am I beating my hair up? Because I want it to look like something that it isn't? These are questions that I've been… — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
Getting to a place where I am comfortable saying things was hard-earned for me. I've chewed on the ground glass of my own experience. I saw Gloria Steinem speak, and I was just like, Shut the front door. She was saying that she didn't come into her own until her 40s, and she was asking herself the question, Why should… — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share
I don't know that the stereotypical idea of what it is to be a child of somebody hugely famous necessarily comes into play in… — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
![“I felt like it was a courageous show [Black-ish] from the beginning. We are a black family - we're not a family that happens to be black. But the show is not even about us being black. The show is about us being a family. That is groundbreaking - on TV, the black characters either happen to be…” quote by Tracee Ellis Ross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/322/tracee-ellis-ross-8946_black_i-felt-like-it-was-a-courageous-show-bla_2758443.jpg)
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