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Mara Brock Akil Quotes

I've been having a 20-plus year conversation with black women, starting with 'Girlfriends,' moving through 'The Game,' 'Being Mary Jane,' even 'Sparkle.'

Mara Brock Akil

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Women Moving Game Sparkle Black

I am not comfortable telling people I am trying stand-up because to me that implies confidence. I'm - well, I'm not.

Jessie Cave

Confidence I Am People Me Trying Am

I didn't quite get 'If I Loved You.' I didn't understand what they're saying. 'Why are they saying if? Are they flirting? Is she being coy? Does she know what she's getting into?' I didn't understand this woman.

Jessie Mueller

Woman Saying Loved You Know Why

Tears are the noble language of the eye.

Robert Herrick

Tears Eye Language Noble

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

You Forget Land Belong Fruits

For me, electronic music is like cooking: it's a sensual organic activity where you can mix ingredients.

Jean-Michel Jarre

Music Cooking Me You Ingredients

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

Stanley Baldwin

Trust Woman Man Reason Would Rather

My parents, Mary Agnes Smith and Rowland Smith, both had to work since their early teens, she in the holiday boarding house of her mother and he in his father's market garden in Marton Moss, a village on the south side of Blackpool, just north of Saint Anne's-on-Sea.

Michael Smith

Work Father Mother Parents Holiday

The proof is in the results, and the proof will be in the ongoing ability to execute.

Mindy Grossman

Results Will Ability Proof Execute

Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our lives change. We have other favorites that give us what we most need at that particular time. But we never lose the old favorites. They're always with us. We just sort of accumulate them.

Lloyd Alexander

Change Time Book Lose Never Need

I see the cartoonist as contributing to the content, being critical, because we do poke holes in some of the dialogue and find new ways of seeing things.

Jonathan Shapiro

Seeing Find New See Content I See

I'm certainly grateful that there were projects that I did that people responded to. It would be a nightmare if it were the other way around. But it's sometimes a little disheartening.

Christian Slater

Grateful People Sometimes Way Little

I needed to see if I could have fun in a project again, and 'Riverdale' was a project that ended up looking like a tonne of fun.

Cole Sprouse

Fun Looking Have Fun Project See Up