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

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Source : Terry McMillan (2006). “Waiting to Exhale”, p.38, Penguin

Terry McMillan

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“The reality is you've got to be yourself. You've got to be who you are. You've got to be honest with people. If your views change on something, you've got to be willing to express it.”
“I made all my mistakes playing with people.”
“I'm just very interested in what my guests have to say. You have to be vigilant to stay ignorant.”
“There is something addictive about secrets.”
“That's what I always enjoyed about acting, the real adrenalin rush. My heart - still before I go on stage - crashing out of my chest. That's thrilling to me.”
“I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them.”
“I just wanted to do something important.”
“In real life, you can't get a job as an executive unless you have the educational background and the opportunity. Now the fact that you are not an executive is merely because of the social standing of life... Black people have a hard time getting anywhere. And those that do, are usually straight. In a ballroom, you can be anything you want.”

Source : ""Paris Is Burning"". Documentary, 1991.

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