Tyler Perry gave a speech at last night's Academy awards while receiving ths Jean Hersholt Humanitarian award the served as a lightening rod challenging all of us to do better. To be more giving and thoughtful in our actions.
" Thank you. Thank you, that is, that’s incredibly kind. Thank you so much. They only gave me a few minutes so I wanna say a very special thanks to Miss Viola Davis, who is nominated tonight and doing this. Thank you, thank you, I really appreciate it. To the Board of Governors, especially to Whoopi Goldberg, Ava. You know when I set out to help someone, it is my intention to do just that. I’m not trying to do anything other than meet somebody at their humanity. Like a case in point, this one time I remember I was, maybe it was about 17 years ago. I rented this building and we were using it for production and I was walking to my car one day and I see this woman coming up out of the corner of my eye and I say, she’s homeless, let me give her some money."
Posted By: Tanisha Grant
Monday, April 26th 2021 at 3:51AM
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