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We All, As Women, Need To Continue To Change Our Gaze From How We Are Seen To How We Are Seeing.

After College, I Shot A Pilot For A Show On Lifetime, Which Was Basically House Of Style For A Tv Lover. I Think I Got Paid $1,500, And I Was Like, "mom, I'm Moving Out! I Made It!" I Did Two Seasons Of That, But I Felt Like A Talking Head And Wanted To Do More.

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 Black Or They're The "black Character," Where Everything They Say Is About Being Black. I Think That's The Genius.

Sometime In My Second Year At Brown [university], I Took An Acting Class. And The Lightbulb Went Off For Me. I Fell In Love With It. I Realized That Everything I Was Afraid Of About Myself, All My Fears, Could Be Used In That World.

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.