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happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!

Terry McMillan

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Terry McMillan
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Port Huron
Michigan
Zeroes
Aint
Behinds
Behind
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Happiness
Certain

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I've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.
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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 like doing the readings and the autographing, but the interviewing gets a little tedious because you get asked the same questions every day and sometimes three or four times a day.
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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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I let my characters do the talking, simple as that.
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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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The best rush in the world is getting something at 80 percent off.
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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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