Terry McMillan Quotes - Page 2

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• What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them.

  Terry McMillan

  People, Sometimes, Knows

  Terry McMillan (2010). “Getting to Happy”, p.151, Penguin

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• It goes without saying that your friends are usually the first to discuss your personal business behind your back.

  Terry McMillan

  Firsts, Behind Your Back, Behinds

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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.

  Terry McMillan

  White, Black, Judgment

  Spike Lee, Terry McMillan (1991). “Five for five: the films of Spike Lee”, Stewart Tabori & Chang

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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.

  Terry McMillan

  Heart, Water, Guy

  Terry McMillan (2010). “Getting to Happy”, p.94, Penguin

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• Look, as my mama always said, 'One monkey don't stop no show.

  Terry McMillan

  Looks, Monkeys, Mama

  Terry McMillan (2010). “Getting to Happy”, p.177, Penguin

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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.

  Terry McMillan

  Music, Cracks, Company

  Terry McMillan (2012). “Disappearing Acts”, p.21, Penguin

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

  Terry McMillan

  People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.

  Terry McMillan

  Buttons, Want, Get Back

  Terry McMillan (2010). “Getting to Happy”, p.94, Penguin

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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.

  Terry McMillan

  Lonely, Jobs, Heart

  Terry McMillan (2010). “Getting to Happy”, p.156, Penguin

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• I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.

  Terry McMillan

  Character, Trying, Levels

  "Author Terry McMillan, Interrupted by Life". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. July 28, 2005.

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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.

  Terry McMillan

  Waiting, I Can

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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?

  Terry McMillan

  Basketball, Football, Thinking

  Terry McMillan (2012). “Disappearing Acts”, p.23, Penguin

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• It should be obvious that I wasn't no honor roll student in high school. My favorite class was boys.

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  School, Boys, Class

  Terry McMillan (2013). “Who Asked You?”, p.77, Penguin

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• As far as young kids go, my primary interest is to get parents to read to their kids. That’s about the most you can do, I think.

  Terry McMillan

  Kids, Thinking, Parent

  "Terry McMillan: On The Anguilla Literary Festival & Oprah’s Possible Role In ‘Waiting To Exhale’ Sequel". Interview with Brennan Williams, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 16, 2012.

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• I let my characters do the talking, simple as that.

  Terry McMillan

  Character, Simple, Talking

  "Fiction Tips From Terry McMillan". Interview with Anne Bowling, www.writersdigest.com. March 11, 2008.

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• money does not guarantee happiness or peace of mind, it can take your mind off things, distract you, but it can't replace the generic stuff a person needs!

  Terry McMillan

  Mind, Doe, Needs

  Terry McMillan (2002). “A Day Late and a Dollar Short”, p.52, Penguin

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• Let me put it this way: when I read, I learned the world was not as small as my house. And that everybody in my home town was not representative of the way people in the world were raised. And that was what saved me.

  Terry McMillan

  Home, People, House

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• Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.

  Terry McMillan

  Children, Parent, Vices

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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.

  Terry McMillan

  Men, Would Be, Kind

  Terry McMillan (2006). “Waiting to Exhale”, p.40, Penguin

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• Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

  Terry McMillan

  Life, Responsibility, Architect

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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.

  Terry McMillan

  Heart, Divorce, Suffering

  Terry McMillan (2010). “Getting to Happy”, p.164, Penguin

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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.

  Terry McMillan

  Mirrors, Long, Age

  Terry McMillan (2006). “Waiting to Exhale”, p.15, Penguin

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• I like to think of what happens to characters in good novels and stories as knots--things keep knotting up. And by the end of the story--readers see an unknotting of sorts. Not what you expect, not the easy answers you get on TV, not wash and wear philosophies, but a reproduction of believable, emotional experiences.

  Terry McMillan

  Philosophy, Character, Emotional

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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.

  Terry McMillan

  Trying, Naked, Looks

  Terry McMillan (2010). “Getting to Happy”, p.11, Penguin

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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.

  Terry McMillan

  Mother, Kids, Writing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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