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Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.

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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It goes without saying that your friends are usually the first to discuss your personal business behind your back.
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Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.
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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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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'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've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.
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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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happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!
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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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At least be a nice lesbian or you're going to give the rest a bad rap.
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Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.
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Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.
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I just believe that young people need to be able to learn how to write in their own voice. Just like a musician, you pride yourself on having your own distinct sound.
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I want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.
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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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don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!
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