Terry McMillan Quotes - Page 2

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

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

I don't trust white critics' judgment about most things that deal with black life, particularly when a black person is the creator.

We never thought some guy would deliberately fill our hearts with brown sugar and then pour hot water all over it.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Sometimes I cheat and buy things I used to make from scratch and just doctor them up.

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.

Why is it that if you happen to be black and over six feet tall, everybody thinks you supposed to play basketball or football?

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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

I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like one.

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

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.

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.

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.

I'm not trying to be a middle aged centerfold, I just want to look at myself naked and not be disgusted.