00:00and i am here with being mary jane the game creator girlfriends mara brock akil oh nice
00:14to be here i love being here nice to see you a former honoree of black women in hollywood
00:18one of my highlights highlights in my life it was great love it you know being mary jane i can't
00:24help but talk about it thank you i love that show you know it's funny after at the end of every cut
00:32i have to ask myself do you love it because i'm trying to take risk as an artist we all are you
00:38know gabrielle's taking the risk we're all trying to go there and but at the end of the day i'm really
00:44happy with it but it is a super duper bonus when twitter lights up and we're you know we're taking
00:50over twitter i love it i love it i love it i love trending and you know you recently had an
00:56interview i forgot what magazine but you said that you you're not going to write only angelic black
01:02women characters why should you i think that's just as damaging as negative images you know when when
01:08the black audience asked or when black women said can you write positive images it's just a reaction
01:13to something that was a lie to begin with our neg the negative images out there were a lie and to
01:18to paint them with positive images is a lie too so you're just painting lies on top of lies
01:23our truth is beautiful we are enough in the beautiful uh our beautiful uh frailties or our
01:30beautiful uh flaws that's what i'm gonna say the beautiful flaws that's where our humanity exists
01:35between those extremes and that's what the message needs to be no one's perfect i mean i tell my kids
01:43that every day you can't be perfect so don't try just do your best and sometimes you're
01:48best falls short but the really the the the go the the journey of human our humanity is to get
01:55back up again and keep trying and i think that is what's beautiful about black women i mean look at
01:59this event yes yes no one was honoring us no one was putting a light on us essence has been holding it
02:06down in the publication and now in this event this is the most coveted ticket yes and certainly a black
02:13actresses or black hollywood because it's not just i mean yeah black hollywood event i mean the men are
02:18a little jealous they don't get there
02:20well maybe next year maybe next year but anyway it's it's it's we've been missing from the
02:24conversation yeah being defined by others so this event is very beautiful to be here um
02:30we love having you here and former honoree and all around fly girl first of all i love it thank you
02:38thank you so i want you to go inside and have a blast of course you are but and we'll see you next year
02:42yes yes we will see you will see me next year i will i will get a ticket yes you are always going
02:47to get a ticket thank you so much mara thank you
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