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I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.

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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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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It goes without saying that your friends are usually the first to discuss your personal business behind your back.
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I want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.
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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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Writing is my shelter. I don't hide behind the words I use them to dig inside my heart to find the 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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It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.
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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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don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!
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People like to run their mouths.
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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 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 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 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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