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People always have something to say about what you do and how you do it.

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Terry McMillan
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Port Huron
Michigan
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People

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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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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 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 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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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 like to run their mouths.
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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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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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Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.
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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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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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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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I also discovered that you can get used to a man , much like you do a household pet!
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My stories are character driven.
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I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.
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Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.
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I want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.
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People need to be re - sometimes we need to reinvent ourselves and then get reacquainted with our better selves.
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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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