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People like to run their mouths.

Terry McMillan

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Terry McMillan
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
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Port Huron
Michigan
Mouths
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Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.
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I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.
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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 let my characters do the talking, simple as that.
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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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People always have something to say about what you do and how you do it.
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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 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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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 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'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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don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!
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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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I like doing the readings and the autographing, but the interviewing gets a little tedious because you get asked the same questions every day and sometimes three or four times a day.
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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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Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.
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