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People like to run their mouths.

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Terry McMillan
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
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Port Huron
Michigan
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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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Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.
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money does not guarantee happiness or peace of mind, it can take your mind off things, distract you, but it can't replace the generic stuff a person needs!
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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 been saying it for years: church is full of sneaky men posing as honest souls, and they are perpetuators our here looking for women just like you, with giant holes in your hearts, and they can smell when you got a good job and when you lonely as hell.
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I want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.
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Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.
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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 don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.
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I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like one.
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happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind 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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The best rush in the world is getting something at 80 percent off.
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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 take what people feel and think, especially when it's different from, very seriously, and I find it liberating.
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Cruising the Internet doesn't count as writing. Neither does answering e-mail. Before you check Twitter & FB and do other similar tasks that get in the way of writing, write first. (I really need to take my own advice here!)
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I've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.
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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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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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