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I want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.

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Terry McMillan
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
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Port Huron
Michigan
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I'm not trying to be a middle aged centerfold, I just want to look at myself naked and not be disgusted.
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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 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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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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I've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.
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People always have something to say about what you do and how you do it.
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What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them.
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happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!
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Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.
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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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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 don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.
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My stories are character driven.
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I also discovered that you can get used to a man , much like you do a household pet!
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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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Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.
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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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The best rush in the world is getting something at 80 percent off.
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