This TED Talk features actress, performance artist, and motivational speaker Tracy Ellis Ross, recorded live at TED 2018.

So I have a friend. She's an actress. She's in her 60s. She's super bright, badass, emotionally intelligent,

and a couple of days before Christmas, she was at the post office.

It was really crowded, as it is around the holidays,

and she was filling out some forms, and she was really focused,

and out of nowhere, someone moved her out of the way,

just physically put their hands on her and moved her out of the way.

He apparently needed something that she was blocking, so he moved her.

Maybe he had said something to her, maybe he didn't, she didn't hear it.

Either way, she was focused, she was filling out the form,

and then next thing you know, there were hands on her,

and she was being moved out of the way.

He then got what he was reaching for,

whatever she was blocking,

and went on his merry way.

She said that she was shocked at first, yeah,

and then a fury rose up in her that she could not explain.

Not annoyance, not frustration,

but fury was the word that she used.

And she went on to say, I mean, I wanted to get physical.

I don't know, I was furious.

And I don't know why.

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