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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.

Terry McMillan

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Terry McMillan
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
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Port Huron
Michigan
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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 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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I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.
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happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!
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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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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 take what people feel and think, especially when it's different from, very seriously, and I find it liberating.
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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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What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them.
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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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People need to be re - sometimes we need to reinvent ourselves and then get reacquainted with our better selves.
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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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