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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.

Terry McMillan

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Terry McMillan
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Port Huron
Michigan
Find
Shelter
Writing
Hide
Heart
Behinds
Behind
Inside
Words
Use
Truth

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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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happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!
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Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.
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I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.
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