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Mara Brock Akil Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Work Culture American More Still

I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.

Positive Doing Reaction Always

To my fellow nominees, whoever they are - I'm not that familiar with their work - I just want to say, there's always next year - except, you know, for Ray Romano .

Work Year You Know Say Want

A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.

Mikhail Bakunin

God Respect Jealous Humanity Liberty

My father was an actor. Both of my older brothers are actors. My younger sister is an actress. For me, that's my job; that's my craft. But then all through school and through drama school, I was gigging and running nights and playing in bands, and I just didn't want to let that go.

Father Job School Me Sister Drama

I'm kind of intimidated by the big screen - I often keep my performances much smaller and much more natural and subtle.

Kind More Big Natural Screen Keep

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.

Publilius Syrus

Man Anger Angry Reason Again He

Take care that no one hates you justly.

Publilius Syrus

Care Take Care You Take Hates

I never had confidence - never. The hardest thing to know is your own worth, and it took me years and years to find out what mine is.

Confidence Me Worth Find Know Never

I was a huge fan of the original 'Star Trek,' and I'd never even dreamed that I would someday be captain of a starship.

Captain Never Original Star Someday

I think anything that's creative really takes my mind off whatever it is that I'm going through in my life. If you're going through heartbreak, and you can write a song, it's a wonderful win-win, because it takes your mind off the heartbreak, and you get to vent.

Life Creative Mind Song Think You

We say the name of God, but that is only habit.

Nikita Khrushchev

God Habit Name Say Only

The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related.

Kimberly Williams-Paisley

Rise Obesity High Mortality Epidemic

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