Tracie Thoms quotes:

People can graduate from beauty school and know everything about white hair and nothing about African-American hair.

African-Americans are always forced to learn the other culture, but the other culture is not forced to learn ours. I went to acting school at Juilliard, and we learned Shakespeare and Shaw, but we never did the work of a single African-American playwright, not August Wilson or Ntozake Shange or Imir Baraka.

It's amazing that it's considered revolutionary to wear my hair the way it grows out of my head.

I think theater will always be my first love. I've been doing it since I was nine, and there's nothing quite like being on stage, having the immediate intake of energy and exchange of ideas.

I'm really looking forward to developing just really fun, complex, interesting stories about people who happen to be black.

I think theater will always be my first love. Ive been doing it since I was nine, and theres nothing quite like being on stage, having the immediate intake of energy and exchange of ideas.