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People like to run their mouths.
Terry McMillan
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Terry McMillan
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
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Port Huron
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Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.
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happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind 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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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 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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Back then I confused passions and orgasms with love. It look me years to realize the two weren't synonymous.
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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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It goes without saying that your friends are usually the first to discuss your personal business behind your back.
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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 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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don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!
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At least be a nice lesbian or you're going to give the rest a bad rap.
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You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way.
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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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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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Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.
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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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