Mara Brock Akil famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody.
-- Mara Brock Akil

#Writing #Black #Black Women
Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.
-- Mara Brock Akil

#Thinking #Race #People
A staple of my personality is that I want what I want - and Im willing to do without until I get it.
-- Mara Brock Akil

#Personality #Want #Staples
Thank you for seeing me on the days when I couldn't see myself.
-- Mara Brock Akil
Any form of media is an opportunity to be a mirror and reflection of what we are experiencing more in the details of our life. What makes it fun and unique in a lot of ways is how that journey is changing just by the mere fact of the current time.
-- Mara Brock Akil

#Fun #Reflection #Unique
We still have a lot of work to do in American culture. More open-mindedness is happening - in some cases rapidly, in some, slowly.
-- Mara Brock Akil

#Culture #Cases #Stills

This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
I can write better than anyone who can write faster,
Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.
I'm convinced that we Black women possess a special indestructible strength that allows us to not only get down, but to get up, to get through, and to get over.
My hope as an actress is knowing that I'm someone who is more privileged - I'm biracial and lighter-skinned - and I hope it can open up the door for more women of color, especially darker-skinned black women. I hope everyone hops on the bandwagon and decides to start putting women of color in movies that aren't just about race.

Mara Brock Akil famous quotes

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