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

Terry McMillan

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Terry McMillan
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
Author
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Port Huron
Michigan
People
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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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Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.
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The best rush in the world is getting something at 80 percent off.
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I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.
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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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happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!
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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 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 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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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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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 want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.
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Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.
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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 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 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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It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.
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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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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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