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Mara Brock Akil Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: May 27, 1970

Topics

Love Women Writing Black You Go

If someone attacks me, and they want to punch or kick me, I can just run away. They're not holding onto me. I can get away from them.

Me Someone I Can Want Run Punch

If you don't want to put on any makeup, try some fake eyelashes. They make your eyes pop and give you a little confidence boost.

Jessie James Decker

Confidence Eyes Makeup Fake You Try

There is this myth, that America is a melting pot, but what happens in assimilation is that we end up deliberately choosing the American things - hot dogs and apple pie - and ignoring the Chinese offerings.

End American America Apple Pie Hot

I think, personally - I don't know if other readers would agree - but reading 'Penumbra,' I detect an Internet writer or a writer who came up on the Internet.

Reading Think Internet Know Up Who

You can't take money from the taxpayers out of the treasury to give it to pay off your political donors. That's corruption to do that.

Michele Bachmann

Money Political Corruption You Pay

I guess I just feel very comfortable with being myself.

Myself Feel Being Myself Comfortable

There's a certain feeling of giving, a certain feeling of generosity in love songs. When you sing a song of love, you're actually giving something to yourself, too. You're singing and casting these affirmations of love out into the universe. It resonates in your body in a way that feels extraordinary.

Love Yourself Generosity Singing You

When I started out, I wanted to be Billy Joel. The plan was to be a singer-songwriter of that ilk, and, then, I got waylaid - that's probably an unfair way to say it - from being a rock star by the musical theatre stuff, which I love doing.

Jason Robert Brown

Love Theatre Rock Star Doing Plan

When you cook a sausage, the skin sometimes breaks and the ground meat comes apart.

You Skin Sometimes Meat Ground Cook

I found songwriting really hard at first, but after a while it was actually very easy.

Dionne Bromfield

Easy Songwriting First Hard Found

There are going to be good times and bad times, but lighten up.

Good Good Times Bad Bad Times Up

My hope is that 'Beyond the Heavens' will encourage people to explore faith, open their mind and go beyond what they think they know. That is what my mother encouraged me to do. I hope to encourage others to do the same through this story.

Mother Faith Hope People Mind Me

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