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“If wearing a weave is what makes you feel beautiful, if wearing a wig, if wearing your hair pink, blue, that's what matters, in my opinion.”
“Keeping the facts differentiated from the fantasy is incredibly helpful in gathering your information as you discover if a person is a match for you.”
“I feel like I'm on the inside for the first time. Inside the castle. I have an Emmy nomination!”
“There are things about my body that I don't love, but I'm not trying to look perfect every day - I'm trying to look like me!”
“Because of my unique experience as my mom's child, the beginning of my journey was more about me trying to figure out who I was on my own. My mom is one of the greatest moms and so supportive of all my siblings and of all of us being who we are, and not who she wanted us to be.”
“There is no right way to do life.”
“Using my voice to recognize and celebrate other women is a joy for me.”
“I have a vocabulary in clothing. It's like a whole language.”
“I used to literally collect friends that had hair like me. And it would start like this: 'What kind of products do you use?'”
“My mom had beautiful clothes. My mom is elegant; my mom is glamorous. But my mom is also really real, and I grew up with a mother who had babies crawling on her head and spitting up on her when she was wearing gorgeous, expensive things, and it was never an issue.”
“Share shame so you are not left alone with it. If you can't find another person, get a journal. I didn't say make a video on Snapchat. It's for you, not anyone else.”
“For so many years, I was trying to beat my hair into submission, trying to get it to look like someone else's hair, and I didn't know how. I remember going through a phase where I even put beer in my hair, because I was told that would make it smooth and curly.”
“I grew up on the ragged edge of self-acceptance, where I was holding on to it, but it was easy to fall off. But as I found my way inside myself, I've been able to accept my own hair, my own shape.”
“I have started using the expression 'compassionate activism': It's about keeping my heart open so that I can understand the point of view of the other person.”
“Even if politicians spew confusing, convoluted jargon, these people are still meant to represent me, and the only way that happens is if I stay informed and vote.”
“I think it's huge that I'm wearing my natural hair texture on ABC in prime time. As Dr. Rainbow Johnson on 'Black-ish,' I think my hair is part of the reality of this woman's life. She has four children and is an anesthesiologist and a wife. She doesn't have a lot of time to fuss with beauty, so her look is pretty simple.”
“Everyone's always like, 'Be your best self!' And that drives me bananas, because when you're not, it makes you feel really bad.”
“I listen to my body. Some days all I want is a good steak and others, I crave veggies and quinoa.”
“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.”
“I don't always feel fierce and fearless, but I do feel like I'm a rock star at being human.”