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Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.

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Terry McMillan
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
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Novelist
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Port Huron
Michigan
Behinds
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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 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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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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Sometimes I cheat and buy things I used to make from scratch and just doctor them up.
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I've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.
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The best rush in the world is getting something at 80 percent off.
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Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.
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Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.
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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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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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My stories are character driven.
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People like to run their mouths.
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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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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'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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