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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
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Port Huron
Michigan
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People need to be re - sometimes we need to reinvent ourselves and then get reacquainted with our better selves.
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happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!
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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 let my characters do the talking, simple as that.
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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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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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Writing is my shelter. I don't hide behind the words I use them to dig inside my heart to find the truth.
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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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My stories are character driven.
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We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our heart and we realize this fairy tale ain't fair. So we suffer.
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I used to get a lot of letters from prisoners. It used to get on my nerves. Especially family members. Everybody's innocent.
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Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.
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It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.
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We never thought some guy would deliberately fill our hearts with brown sugar and then pour hot water all over it.
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I've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.
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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 been saying it for years: church is full of sneaky men posing as honest souls, and they are perpetuators our here looking for women just like you, with giant holes in your hearts, and they can smell when you got a good job and when you lonely as hell.
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Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.
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Sometimes I cheat and buy things I used to make from scratch and just doctor them up.
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Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.
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