Mara Brock Akil Quotes

It never even crossed my mind I wouldn't go to college.

No one in my family had ever even gone to college.

For me, having the opportunity to go to college was very important. To miss out on an education is a loss.

It was always assumed that I would go to college.

My mom never went to college, but for her own children, getting a great education was not an option.

I really wanted to go to college.

I tell my grandchildren - I've got seven of them - to go to college and get that degree first. I could have stayed in college and still recorded. Isn't that something? The kids of today are doing it.

I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school.

Access to a college degree is critical.

I never went to college - I barely got out of high school.

Going to college was something that I didn't want to do.

The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, taking extra classes in summer school.

If I was going to go to college, I had to have a scholarship. By my sophomore year, it was evident golf was not going to be the path.

When it comes to sending my children to college, I want the best education. It's the only thing I'm really leaving them - a good education.

I went to college at University of Tennessee.

Me going to college was not an option.

All of the great big men went to college at least two or three years. I think it's a big factor. I don't know if it will always work, but I think it's the best choice.

My senior year of high school, I probably wouldn't get so much out of it as if I went to college.

My mom had always been big on education. She was the first woman in our family to go to college, and she often reminded me that I needed to go to college if I wanted to really make it in life.

The rule was I had to go to college, and I couldn't even go to theater camp.

I never did figure on being a college man.

I tried to go to college, I barely got out of high school.

On 'Undeclared,' I was actually the only person who had gone to college. Here we are doing this college show, and no one had actually really been, and it was so bizarre to me.

It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.

I'm 18, I'm going to graduate high school in a few months.