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Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.
Terry McMillan
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Terry McMillan
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
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I want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.
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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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money does not guarantee happiness or peace of mind, it can take your mind off things, distract you, but it can't replace the generic stuff a person needs!
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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 let my characters do the talking, simple as that.
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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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At least be a nice lesbian or you're going to give the rest a bad rap.
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I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.
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It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.
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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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I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other.
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People like to run their mouths.
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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've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.
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I was tired of chasing ghosts, hollow men who were outside my comfort zone, men who had nothing to give me except a rush. It was all I asked for, and all I ever got.
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Sometimes I cheat and buy things I used to make from scratch and just doctor them up.
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I would like to think that as a result of not just my own experiences, but at least being empathetic and compassionate about other people's experiences and plights and tragedies, that I am affected by it and learn from it.
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Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.
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