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 c… - Tracee Ellis Ross

Home for me is about safety and embrace. It's about shedding all the external masks that we have to wear out in the world. Home is really about beauty, safety, history. My friendships are home for me. My family is home for me. It's an energetic connection that creates a sense of safety and groundedness, where I don't have to wear any mask. I can just be myself.

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'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.