104 Quotes by Franchesca Ramsey

As with any job, you don't just sit around achievingall day- you have to put in hours. Until that point, whenever I saw someone doing something I wanted to do, I'd devote many of those hours to negative energy. I would try to convince myself that these strangers weren't worthy of the things I wanted instead of being honesty with myself about how they got there.

Dealing with white people faux pas as a black woman is tricky: if you get upset, you can be quickly be labeled as the "angry black girl"; if you're too passive, it seems like you're give permission, or letting racism slide.

Dealing with white people faux pas as a black woman is tricky: if you get upset, you can be quickly be labeled as the “angry black girl”; if you’re too passive, it seems like you’re give permission, or letting racism slide.

Even if you have all the connections in the world, you still have to show up and do the work. More often than not, I couldn’t even manage to show up.

Women really love their hair. Like, our hair is very important.

It took me years to realize that 'normal' is actually super boring and that being myself was harder but infinitely more rewarding.

Everyone's journey is their own journey. Everyone gets to where they are supposed to be. Everyone's journey works out the way they're supposed to.

Social media, unfortunately, just makes it a lot easier to be jealous. It sets up false expectations of reality, so it's really easy to look at someone else's life online and assume that they have everything going great for them and that their life is perfect.

Oftentimes people say to me, 'Oh I didn't know you could do so much with locs until I saw your videos or I saw photos of you at events.' So whenever I hear that people have been really inspired to experiment with their hair or their look because of me, it's very flattering and really cool.