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I take what people feel and think, especially when it's different from, very seriously, and I find it liberating.

Terry McMillan

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Terry McMillan
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Port Huron
Michigan
People
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Liberating
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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 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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Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.
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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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