I Almost Forgot About You by Terry McMillan

She has taken up the assignment of writing about recent race incidents. While she shares her philosophy on literature, McMillan says that her pen doesn’t discriminate. So you juxtapose it next to what someone is going through.” It is almost a way of saying that we have forgotten where we came from even if it was 40 or 50 years ago.'Īccording to McMillan, the takeaway in reading in fiction “is to help you question your own humanity, who you are as a human being. This is an unwritten code that we have as Black people when we know we can drop it down, and that is the beauty of it to me. But they are not going to work and talk to their clients or their patients (like that) because they don’t have to. a notch and we can go there, and sometimes we need to go there, and that is what my characters do. 'So when I’m writing this, I’m trying to be honest and accurate and this is how we women talk to each other when nobody is watching. “These are very intimating settings where these women are together,' she says. She was my friend for two years.' Looking at languageĮxamining her narratives, linguistically and in the silences, readers will notice McMillan using Black English, or “dropping it down” a level or two. I’m not sitting there on some lofty ledge or pedestal thinking, 'I’m looking down trying to portray this character to do and be.' She is not my puppet.

So her fears and anxieties and desires and frustrations become mine when I’m sitting in front of that computer. I’m not Terry McMillan writing about Georgia Young. “Georgia Young becomes a real person,' she explains. It’s that attitude that motivates McMillan and spurs the character to life. Like McMillan, Georgia resists the notion of getting older.

I Almost Forgot About You by Terry McMillan