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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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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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The best rush in the world is getting something at 80 percent off.
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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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don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!
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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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People like to run their mouths.
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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 want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.
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It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.
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Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.
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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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I also discovered that you can get used to a man , much like you do a household pet!
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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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My stories are character driven.
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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 try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.
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I let my characters do the talking, simple as that.
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I used to get a lot of letters from prisoners. It used to get on my nerves. Especially family members. Everybody's innocent.
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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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I like doing the readings and the autographing, but the interviewing gets a little tedious because you get asked the same questions every day and sometimes three or four times a day.
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