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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 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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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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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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My stories are character driven.
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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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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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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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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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It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.
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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 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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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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Sometimes I cheat and buy things I used to make from scratch and just doctor them up.
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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 also discovered that you can get used to a man , much like you do a household pet!
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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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At least be a nice lesbian or you're going to give the rest a bad rap.
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