Terry McMillan People Quotations

People need to be re - sometimes we need to reinvent ourselves and then get reacquainted with our better selves.

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.

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.

There was not a lot of conflict in the book. Most it was internal conflict so we had to externalize it, ... We had to create situations and people to add to the conflict in order to fuel the story ... so you could see what's at stake.

It's not that marriage itself is bad; it's the people we marry who give it a bad name.

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

Don't worry about how pretty (the story) sounds, how lilting it is, and the imagery, and the metaphor, all that. Most readers don't care. It's the people in your book that matter.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

People like to run their mouths.