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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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Wherever there's a prison, for the most part, especially where there's Black people, it's overcrowded. I don't know who really gets out.
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I've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.
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I want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.
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