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don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!

Terry McMillan

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Terry McMillan
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Port Huron
Michigan
Succumbing
Sabotage
Greatness
Failure

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money does not guarantee happiness or peace of mind, it can take your mind off things, distract you, but it can't replace the generic stuff a person needs!
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I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.
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Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.
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I love writing in first person more than third. I have to basically suspend my own world. I don't exist. I'm just a conduit. So I can be eight years old. I can be the mother of a kid that you find out certain things I'm not going to say.
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I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other.
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I just believe that young people need to be able to learn how to write in their own voice. Just like a musician, you pride yourself on having your own distinct sound.
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I don't trust white critics' judgment about most things that deal with black life, particularly when a black person is the creator.
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You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way.
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People like to run their mouths.
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It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.
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I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like one.
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I was tired of chasing ghosts, hollow men who were outside my comfort zone, men who had nothing to give me except a rush. It was all I asked for, and all I ever got.
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The best rush in the world is getting something at 80 percent off.
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Parents can ruin children, and sometimes that's a learned behavior. Sometimes you can't blame your parents for it, sometimes you can. I think to me, that's what the whole paradox is, is people that have children that don't even know how to raise them.
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Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.
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happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!
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At least be a nice lesbian or you're going to give the rest a bad rap.
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I take what people feel and think, especially when it's different from, very seriously, and I find it liberating.
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Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.
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