Terry McMillan Quotes
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As a writer, you get to bring attention to something without preaching. I don't believe in being didactic. So if you dramatize something, you automatically bring attention to it if people read it.
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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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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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It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.
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My stories are character driven.
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What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them.
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Write from your heart, and God will take care of the rest.
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I can't stand that - those women in 'Waiting to Exhale' now. I can't stand them. But that's because I'm 53 and not 33. But what they were experiencing at 33, I identified with 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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I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.
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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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Back then I confused passions and orgasms with love. It look me years to realize the two weren't synonymous.
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People always have something to say about what you do and how you do it.
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Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.
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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 remember the day I turned thirty. I was getting out of the shower and I stood in front of the mirror and stared at myself for a long time. I examined every inch of my body and appreciated the fact that I finally looked like a grown woman. I also assumed that this was how I was going to look for the rest of my life. The way I saw it, I was never going to age; I'd just look up one day and be old.
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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 also discovered that you can get used to a man , much like you do a household pet!
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We never thought some guy would deliberately fill our hearts with brown sugar and then pour hot water all over it.
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Why is it that if you happen to be black and over six feet tall, everybody thinks you supposed to play basketball or football?
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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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My mama taught me that anything worth doing in life should be a little scary.
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don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!
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I'd crack up without my music. It's the best company you can have, really. It don't say 'no' or 'maybe,' or ask no questions.
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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 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 want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.
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I've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.
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happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!
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