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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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Terry McMillan
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
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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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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 don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.
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Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.
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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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Sometimes I cheat and buy things I used to make from scratch and just doctor them up.
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Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.
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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 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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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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People always have something to say about what you do and how you do it.
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I want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.
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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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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've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.
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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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Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.
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It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.
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happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!
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