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Terry McMillan
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
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Port Huron
Michigan
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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 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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Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.
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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 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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don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!
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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 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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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've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.
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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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I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.
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What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them.
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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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The best rush in the world is getting something at 80 percent off.
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I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.
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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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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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