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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
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Port Huron
Michigan
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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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People like to run their mouths.
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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 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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What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them.
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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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I let my characters do the talking, simple as that.
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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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Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.
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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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Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.
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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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My stories are character driven.
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happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!
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Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.
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don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!
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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'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 want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.
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People always have something to say about what you do and how you do it.
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