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My stories are character driven.

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 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 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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I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.
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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 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 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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I also discovered that you can get used to a man , much like you do a household pet!
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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 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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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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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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It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.
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People need to be re - sometimes we need to reinvent ourselves and then get reacquainted with our better selves.
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Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.
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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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Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.
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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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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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happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!
Terry McMillan