I’m hoping that the legacy of ‘Girlfriends’ is just that you can enjoy and connect to Joan, Maya, Toni, Lynn, and William and see your humanity reflected in theirs. That’s what I’m hoping that it did. Mara Brock Akil Read Quote
Sometimes, we only get to know someone as one aspect of who they are. Then you start peeling back the layers and understanding more and more about who they are – their vulnerabilities, their fears, their joys, all those other words that equal humanity. Mara Brock Akil Read Quote
With directing, it’s all out there, in the moment and in real-time. The pressure and all of the eyes are on you, and you’ve gotta do it. That is the place that made me nervous. Mara Brock Akil Read Quote
Where I thrive is with my hands on the keyboard or my pen on the paper. One of the things I get to do is I get to rewrite. I rewrite, and I work hard on my scripts. You can rewrite until you’re ‘perfect,’ and that’s something that’s safe for me. Mara Brock Akil Read Quote
It’s funny that black men, at first, were worried about a show called ‘Girlfriends’ because they thought that black men were gonna get bashed. They realized, ‘Wait a minute – we’re respected in this story.’ Mara Brock Akil Read Quote
I’m not afraid of stereotypes. There are some truths to it – but the problem is that people keep sort of owning that one thing to be the truth. Mara Brock Akil Read Quote
I often attribute my screenwriting to journalism because they drill in the who, what, when, where and why – but we really need to land on that why. That’s what I’ve been exploring in my writing for many years and trying to get better at. Mara Brock Akil Read Quote
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 Read Quote
