Top 45 Franchesca Ramsey Quotes

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.

I don’t want to tell anybody who to vote for; I’d rather people just do their homework and make sure they vote for the person that they feel like is best to run our country.

Do not feed the trolls! Racist commenters usually troll the Internet looking for people of color to harass online. If you avoid responding, oftentimes they will get bored and move on.

I always make sure to moisturize my hair. I love natural oils, coconut oil. Moisture is one thing you can never go wrong with.

It’s important to understand you can’t remove the historical context of racially charged stereotypes or slurs as much as we like to pretend that we can.

People feel really uncomfortable talking about race and identity, largely because the subject is so taboo.

For content creators, it’s really important to be honest. Your audience will appreciate if you’re stingy with the brands you work with.

People feel like using the word ‘joke’ removes responsibility for the hurt their words may cause. It doesn’t; in fact, it may make things worse.

I’m just really excited to expose people to different identities, different conversations but also to kind of reframe how they think about black women just by being myself.

Black women come with all sorts of personalities. So it’s time for media to wise up and show us in all of our complexity.

When I started in 2007, YouTube was just a fun hobby for others and myself.

Beauty is really cool because it’s something that can make you feel good about yourself.

I enjoy working out because I struggle with anxiety, and exercise has been a great way for me to combat that.

I’m obsessed with cute gym clothes in bright bold prints, so as soon as Mara Hoffman expanded into activewear, I knew my wallet was in danger.

In many ways, being yourself is dispelling stereotypes.

If you’re brave enough to search ‘Franchesca Ramsey’ on YouTube, you’ll find a sea of ranting white dudes pinning the ‘angry black woman’ stereotype onto my smiling face.

Self-esteem doesn’t have to just be about the way you look; it can be about your talents and passions. All of those things can build someone’s confidence and show them that they have self worth and they are important.

When I get to meet my audience when I go speak at colleges or when I’m walking down the street, it’s been really eye-opening how many people have been touched to see someone that looks like them on television.

I think that everyone on the Internet has to deal with people saying negative things. It can be tough!

I’ve had lots of people say, ‘Oh, Franchesca’s content is just for white people.’ But I try to talk about identity in a way that’s accessible to lots of people and is not a pointed finger.

We can’t all wake up and know everything.

My dream has always been to be in entertainment.

I have been talking about social issues on YouTube for a long time now. I think it’s very important in terms of being able to reach people around the world and people who have never been exposed to certain topics or are maybe misinformed about certain things.

‘Decoded’ is definitely close to my heart.

For me, like, my goal has never been, quote, unquote, ‘mainstream success.’ I’ve just always wanted to work in entertainment.

My consciousness is a process, and that includes my relationship with my husband. His being white doesn’t make me any less black or invested in black issues, the same way him being a man doesn’t make me any less of a feminist.

The main problem with cultural appropriation comes from dominant groups ‘borrowing’ from marginalized groups who face oppression or have been stigmatized for their cultural practices throughout history.

I’m embarrassed to admit that I thought the world was ending my junior year of high school after a dye job reacted badly with my perm and left me with a sparse and burnt up hairline. Even though I went natural a few years later, my edges never seemed to recover.

It’s important to take time away from the Internet as much as possible. For me, I love working out, and my husband and I do it together in the mornings! And it’s really our time to check in with each other, but it’s also our time to really not think about work or what’s happening on the Internet.

My channel is an opportunity to give people a new perspective on natural hair. Love what you have and work with what you’ve got. I think that’s really important.

If I know you, and you want to touch my hair, you should ask me first, and most of the time I’ll say yes. But if I don’t know you, and you just reach out and touch me without asking or touch while simultaneously asking, I’m going to give you a side eye.

You create content because you love it, not necessarily because you’re looking for fame or know what it will potentially lead to.

I think that the most important thing when it comes to achieving your dreams is just that you have to be realistic.

The truth is that the performative nature of social media can turn even the simplest conversations into a WWE style cage match with emojis and Internet slang taking the place of pratfalls and over the top costumes.

You have to realize that people are always going to be confused or sometimes threatened by someone who has the confidence to do something different.

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

For me, YouTube was about creating content because I had an interest in beauty and comedy and wanted to find a way to mix those two things, and I could do it from my home, own my own time.

Social media isn’t as quaint as it was when I started my Livejournal back in high school.

Self-care is really about taking care of you and focusing on feeling good about yourself – mind and body.

I left acting school really hoping that I could be on a television show of some sort, working in movies in Hollywood.

‘Stop playing the victim.’ – unless you’ve been cast in a community theater production of ‘Law & Order: SVU,’ I’m not sure why anyone would choose to play victim.

With ‘Decoded,’ the goal is to just keep pushing forward and challenging ourselves to tackle important subjects in creative and funny ways.

My ultimate goal is to make people laugh and make them think, which isn’t always an easy task.

‘Lemonade’ resonated with me, and I love the direction Beyonce is going with her music and her career.

What’s really great about social media is we have tremendous access, and there’s a wealth of information about the people that we admire online.