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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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Port Huron
Michigan
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People like to run their mouths.
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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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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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Cruising the Internet doesn't count as writing. Neither does answering e-mail. Before you check Twitter & FB and do other similar tasks that get in the way of writing, write first. (I really need to take my own advice here!)
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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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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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People always have something to say about what you do and how you do 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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It goes without saying that your friends are usually the first to discuss your personal business behind your back.
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What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them.
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Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.
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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 take what people feel and think, especially when it's different from, very seriously, and I find it liberating.
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The best rush in the world is getting something at 80 percent off.
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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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