Ask me to guess what a morning in the life of Issa Rae looks like, and I'd venture to say there's an early alarm and a booked and busy schedule from the second she steps out of bed. While that's mostly true, the Insecure actress and executive producer assures me I'm missing a key ingredient of her daily routine: a morning mantra. “B*tch, you got it. That’s [my mantra]," she matter-of-factly tells me.
Such profound words of wisdom (putting it on a post-it, for the record) are often accompanied by
Rae's NSFW playlist and affirmations that every day spent getting older on Earth is a privilege. "I want to age gracefully. I don't mind getting old, and I'm looking forward to the wisdom, the confidence, the 'no-fucks given-ness' that comes with aging gracefully and beautifully," she says. "Plus, I really like gray hair."
